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From: Gabriel Lavoie <exibis@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: linux 2.6.6 and keyboard freezes
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:49:36 -0400
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The same problem appeared here with a laptop keyboard, on a Toshiba 
Satellite A20. No problem with 2.5.5.

Jack Howarth wrote:
>      Is anyone else seeing this behavior? On Fedora Core 2 using the
> their kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.403 and kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.406 kernels I 
> am seeing a problem with a PS/2 Logitech keyboard becoming
> non-functional after overnight. In particular the keyboard is
> initially usable after the machine is woken the next morning
> under X windows. Shortly afterwards (~15 minutes) the keyboard
> stops responding. The PS/2 mouse still works however and one
> can log out of the X windows session to restart the X server.
> This however doesn't bring back the keyboard. Also unplugging
> and replugging the keyboard doesn't help. Only a full reboot
> will restore the keyboard to working condition. There is no
> errors appearing in /var/log/messages that indicate any 
> errors related to the keyboard. I have heard from at least
> one other Fedora user who has seen the same thing under Core 2.
> Is this perhaps related to acpi somehow and how can I work
> around it since rebooting everyday is unacceptable.
>                         Jack Howarth

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