Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:46:20 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Keyboard oddness. |
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:15:42AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:27:57PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Okay, a little fresh data: > > > Sep 25 20:22:22 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xd1, > > on isa0060/serio0) pressed. > > Sep 25 20:22:22 localhost kernel: i8042 history: d1 e0 51 e0 d1 e0 51 e0 d1 e0 > > 51 e0 d1 e0 51 d1 > > e0 51 is PageDown press > e0 d1 is PageDown release > > You see here (apart from the first byte, which probably is the second half > of a PageDown release): PageDown press, release, press, release, press, release, > press, broken release. > > A byte e0 was lost, and the release was not seen as a PageDown release. > > > The page down key is the one that stuck. I pressed another key (possibly > > either cursor up or page up) to unstick it, and then the next time I pressed > > page down it didn't register, but the time after that it did. > > > You're talking about missed keypresses, but the end-user symptom I'm seeing > > is definitely a missed key release > > Yes - here a release was garbled. > > Many people have reported missing key releases, and, as a consequence of that, > stuck keys. Your reports feel a bit different: the e0 is sometimes lost from > a key press, sometimes from a key release.
I'm wondering if it could be a bug in the i8042.c driver ...
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