Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:37:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.28-rc4-mmotm1110 shift-lock oddness |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > First, we'd need a little bit more information about the hardware in > > question, I guess. > Dell Latitude D820 laptop, with a USB-connected Microsoft Natural > keyboard. I don't think it's the USB subsystem going *completely* > bonkers, as the USB-connected trackball mouse functions just fine when > this happens...
Does this happen only when Microsoft natural keyboard is connected, or does it happen also when you use the built-in keyboard?
What vendor/product ID does the USB keyboard have, please?
> > What laptop is that, please? Is the keyboard PS/2-connected or > > USB-connected? Could you obtain evtest output from the buggy cases please? > Hmm.. Got a pointer to a usable copy?
All decent distros ship this, usually as part of input-utils package.
> The best I could find googling for > 'linux evtest' was:
> https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/packages/utils/event_test/src/evtest.c > which wants a /dev/inputN - all I have is /dev/input/ and entries under that > for the laptop's onboard mousepad and the trackball mouse, no keyboard entry.
Yes, /dev/input/eventN is used these days (when CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is turned on).
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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