Description of problem: I am running fedora 11 and I am getting unknown key pressed and unknown key released in a terminal with X server shut down. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Here is my keyboard model: Microsoft Laser Desktop 4000 Keyboard is model 1045. Receiver puck is model 1029. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=094 How reproducible: Every time I am in a terminal with X not running I get the errors. Details of the error are as follows: I studied the behaviour and it happens when I press any key at random. The messages appear in a certain interval. For example: I would press the backspace key for 30 seconds, and every ~ 8 seconds I would get the unknown key pressed. Then I moved to another key, and the same result. I read where these keyboards are sending a signal through the receiver puck back to the machine to tell it that the battery is still good in the keyboard. I have this model plugged in to the ps2 port, but it can be used as a usb device. An example of my problem is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-data/+bug/70317 Here is a snippet from the link above, my errors are identical, every few seconds no matter what key pressed. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Quit X server 2. Start typing in the terminal window 3. The errors will show immediately Actual results: Key is pressed and errors are shown every 5 to 8 seconds. The key pressed does not matter. I tried it with a letter, the space bar, backspace key, etc... Expected results: There should not be errors when using non multimedia keys. Additional info: I am new to fedora and linux in general and I am trying to troubleshoot this problem. I would like to find a log to show my exact error but the best I can do for now is use the example from the link above. Any help is appreciated. Steve
Looks like this is a long standing bug in kbd somewhere. There is already a bug filed on it, so I will mark this as a duplicate of that one and you can continue to provide info there. ;) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 141505 ***