From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Description of problem: Far too often, while typing in the console or in X, I get this undesirable error message. It seems to be generated whenever I press together keys that should never be pressed together by good typists, such as `f', `r' and `e', which is unfortunately a very common word prefix to want to type when talking about Free Software :-( Several other combinations involving pressing two keys in the region delimited by r, u, m and u, plus any other neighbor key, generate this message. It's very annoying when typing text in the console. Could this perhaps be disabled? It doesn't seem to actually lose any input. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-1.91 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type `fre' by depressing these 3 keys before releasing any of them, on a Dell Inspiron 8000 Actual Results: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Expected Results: I"d rather not get this message, it's totally useless. Additional info:
Hello, I see this same issue on RHEL 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3.90 (Nahant) Kernel 2.6.3-2.1.223smp kernel.
I see this on my Thinkpad 600X on FC2test2 Quite annoying. I spend a lot of my time at the text consoles and the message trashes the editor sessions
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"me too." Fedora Core 2 on IBM Thinkpad T40. Jun 8 14:46:24 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 14:48:26 wpax last message repeated 2 times Jun 8 14:50:17 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 14:52:09 wpax last message repeated 5 times Jun 8 14:55:37 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 14:57:57 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:01:52 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:03:46 wpax last message repeated 2 times Jun 8 15:04:52 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:06:44 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:10:54 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:12:18 wpax last message repeated 2 times Jun 8 15:14:26 wpax last message repeated 3 times Jun 8 15:17:51 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:19:30 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:36:04 wpax last message repeated 2 times Jun 8 15:37:36 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:48:35 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 15:56:11 wpax last message repeated 4 times Jun 8 16:16:01 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 16:19:39 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 16:22:15 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 16:58:00 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 17:05:28 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 17:06:36 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. Jun 8 17:08:01 wpax kernel: atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed.
Same behaviour here on a Dell Latitude, and again, no key presses are lost, but the error message is printed. Had no such problem with Fedora Core 1, it's only appeared here on the upgrade to FC2.
Me too. Fedora Core 2 on a Toshiba Laptop S2450-401
It's a debug message now rather than one that goes on the console by default.
fixed in 2.6.9 updates ?
It's definitely fixed in the latest FC3 kernels.
I get these messages in syslog with a stock kernel.org kernel, version 2.6.10, on an Inspiron 4150. Does "fixed" mean that these messages just don't go to the console anymore, or should they not be generated at all? Does a patch need to propagate from FC3 to Linus? I don't know if this is related, but I also find that the computer often thinks a shift or control key is being held down when it is not. Pressing the key and releasing it corrects the problem, but by then emacs has done crazy things with all those control keys...
In my case, I found that my Belkin KVM switch was conflicting. I have a 4 port KVM switch with USB support. I had my computer running FC3 connected to the KVM with the PS2 AND USB ports. Thus my KVM was reporting key presses on the PS2 port and on the USB port (Belkin USB keyboard emulation). I disconnected the PS2, so the Belkin would just pass keyboard presses through USB, now I don't get this error anymore. I hope this helps. Maybe some people reporting this bug have a KVM switch? :)