On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:46 +0200, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > SETUP: Sarge with kernel 2.6.8 on Toshiba Satellite M30 > > > PROBLEM: while typing (both with X and on console) sometimes the characters stop > being displayed, and they reappear after a little way. Very often one character is > displayed a bunch of times, as in > > /wrtiw/ret.sdfkjsbdf.vkmsb................................dkgu;veo8rvcw;er9vcwn'ernw89vcn'p9cw8e'rp9 > > > SYSLOG: > > When the keyboard has the problem, /var/log/syslog gives reports: > > Aug 24 07:54:58 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too > many keys pressed. > Aug 24 07:55:01 localhost last message repeated 3 times
I have seen the same thing on a Toshiba Satellite 2140, and never found out what it was. It was not load dependent, however it seemed to occur more often when one was typing quickly, maybe hitting 2 keys at once frequently. It seems to me that I have read a bug report (unresolved) somewhere. Did you try bugs.debian.org? Fortunately, the install was trashed, and the issue went away with a sarge reinstall, using kernel-image 2.6.7. No idea why. FWIW, the keyboard had always been a problem on this laptop: When I first installed woody on it, it would repeat keys. It turned out that the keyboard hardware is buggy, and there was a kernel patch available. The patch seems to have been integrated, and the issue went away (with a high 2.4.x kernel IIRC). Also IIRC an X update (4.3?) was involved in resolving the issue in some way. At the time I also read that such keyboard problems are not unknown to Toshiba users in general. Maybe the 2 issues are unrelated, but at least they show that it may be a hardware prob. Regards, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
