Re: XFree86 seems to be being wrongly accused of doing the wrong thing

[Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.auc.dk>]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 08:08, Peter Williams wrote:
> Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> >>With 2.6.4 I'm getting the following messages very early in the boot 
> >>long before XFree86 is started:
> >>
> >>Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released 
> >>(translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> >>Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It 
> >>shouldn't access hardware directly.
> >>
> >>They are repeated 6 times and are NOT the result of any keys being 
> >>pressed or released.
> > 
> > 
> > this has been fixed in XFree86 HEAD (4.4.99.1)
> > see changelog entry nr. 6 - the changes can easily be backported to 4.3.0, and work as expected on my box.
> > (no noise anymore)
> 
> I repeat.  These messages are appearing when XFree86 is NOT running so 
> there is no way that it can be the cause of them.

I have the exact same behaviour on my machine.

(my 2 cents)

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