Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:37:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!
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Hi Andrew,

Keyboard internal, but... you are right -- this _only_ happens when the
laptop is plugged into the docking station... that could be an extra clue
(i.e. two PS/2 controllers simultaneously -- maybe the docking station one
needs to be somehow explicitly disabled).

How come I can't tell? Because when I type on the console it seems to be
ok, i.e. it is probably _not_ a keyboard driver. On the other hand, on the
laptop I don't type that much on the console and spend all the time in
X in xterm. That is why I am not certain what exactly is broken.

I do not have ACPI enabled, nor APM in the kernel.

Regards,
Tigran

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Hi, Tigran.
> 
> Internal keyboard, or external?
> 
> Does it happen on the console or just in X?  (How come you can't
> tell whether it's the k/b driver or the PTY driver?)
> 
> Tried disabling ACPI?
> 
> Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I amtyping this without correcting -- allthe lost characters you see
> > (including spaces!) are exactly what the pseudo-tty driver does! This is
> > 2.4.1 a it definitely (oh, see "nd" of the ave "and" disappeared? and
> > "above" turned into "ave"!) did work fine previously -- like in the days
> > of 2.3.99 and 2.4.0-teX series (yes, teX was meant to be "testX"!)
> > 
> > So, the keyboard or pty driver is badly broken.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tigran
> > 
> > PS. This only happens on this Dell latitude CPx (notice lost shift in
> > Latitude?) H450GT.
> > 
> > PPS. No, my laptop is fine -- rebootingnto 2.2.x makes it type without
> > loosing characters...
> > 
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