Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 177085
The kernel prints repeated messages about unknown keyboard release codes
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:24:12 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051216 Fedora/1.5-3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: At some point during boot the following messages start being output by the kernel onto the console, and into the syslog: Jan 6 02:54:28 click kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7f on isa0060/serio0). Jan 6 02:54:28 click kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes 7f <keycode>' to make it known. The machine in question does not have an AT keyboard attached, but uses a USB keyboard instead. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.14-1.1805_FC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the system with kernel 2.6.14-1.1805_FC5 Actual Results: atkdb.c error messages are printed once per second. Expected Results: No such messages should be printed. Additional info:
Also confirmed with kernel-2.6.15-1.1819_FC5, and confirmed that the messages begin as soon as the kernel has started.
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/hypermail/parisc-linux-cvs/4887.html maybe try adding: setkeycodes 7f 86 to /etc/rc.local
This is a BIOS emulation acting up. Best of all is to switch it off in BIOS setup (sometimes called "USB Legacy"). The FC5 should have default usb-handoff by now, which should accomplish the same effect, but for some reason it didn't work here.
I am no longer seeing this problem with recent kernels from development. The issue is resolved.