From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754320AbZGNJwo (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:52:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753986AbZGNJwn (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:52:43 -0400 Received: from rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:54382 "EHLO rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753682AbZGNJwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:52:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:52:41 +0200 From: Andreas Mohr To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc2: X stop accepting keystrokes? Message-ID: <20090714095241.GA26272@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090714092459.GA2010@elf.ucw.cz> X-Priority: none User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm having very similar issues currently, on two of my systems now (used to be one only for months, now the second one started having the same issues about 4 weeks ago, with no recognizable config change). Symptoms are that I keep swearing over the system mixing up special key state (Ctrl, Alt, AltGr, etc.), resulting in all sorts of awful actions such as shell logout, view switch, going back to tty, killing text etc.pp. And sometimes full lockup of keyboard in X. Interestingly, while trying to fix it, KDE 4.2.2 systemsettings did NOT manage to get my keyboard back when resetting keyboard or mouse dialog state. HOWEVER, switching screen resolution in the graphics configuration section DID get my keyboard back! Installing entire armadas of xkb*, xinput* packages/utilities had NOT managed to do so... First system: Desktop, 2.6.30-rc5, Debian testing or unstable, PS/2 keyboard, tweaked xorg.conf (--> HAL input unknown). Second system: Netbook, Acer Aspire One, 2.6.30(.0), u9.04, PS/2 internal, no xorg.conf (--> HAL input?). Interesting (if rather non-clueful) pages are https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/HalBreaksKeyboardAndMouse https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input Or it could just really be something strongly kernel-specific for you and something entirely unrelated to the pages and problems above. Come to think of it, I had some full-keyboard-lockup situation(s) even earlier on my netbook (maybe as far back as 6 weeks?), thus it might actually be my recent kernel update indeed. And rest assured that it's annoying as hell. :P Andreas Mohr