Re: 2.3.44: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:33:23PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > No, this is not normal, it means there is a problem communicating to
> > the keyboard. Do the LEDs work on your keyboard at all?
> 
> Yes.  However, it does seem to be acting a little odd.  When it booted up
> the num lock light was on, but when I pressed capslock to check it, num
> lock went out.
> 
> It also seems to be inserting random characters every so often.  Examples:
> 
> "check 'it" when I typed "check it"
> "beef" when I typed "be "
> "cha7racters" when I typed "characters"
> "Examples:B" (shift key then acted 'stuck' until next pressed)
> 
> I'll just double-check that it's kernel-related; I normally run a 2.2
> kernel on this machine, so I'll try that for a while to check that it's
> different.

Well, this looks very much like either a broken cable somewhere, or an
unshielded cable and EMI.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs