Bug 89538 - Keyboard sticky on IBM Thinkpad R32
Summary: Keyboard sticky on IBM Thinkpad R32
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-23 23:41 UTC by Matthew Enger
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:40:50 UTC
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Description Matthew Enger 2003-04-23 23:41:32 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; MSOCD; AtHomeEN191)

Description of problem:
When typing frequently the operating system does not seem to know when a key 
has been released or pressed. This causes keys to appear to be stuck.

The problem does not occur in windows nor if I use an external USB keyboard.

It does not occur for every keystroke, but it does occur frequently.

I am using an IBM R32 Notebook (2658-N4M).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type away till key gets stuck


Actual Results:  The keystroke I pressed keeps repeating.

Expected Results:  The key should have been released and only occured once.

Additional info:

Pressing the key again will fix the problem till it happenes again.

Comment 1 bperkins 2003-04-27 19:59:08 UTC
I've seen this too. This seems to be due to the APM BIOS causing keybaord
interrupts to get dropped whenever /proc/apm is read.

You'll notice a vast improvement if you shut off the battstat applet.  If you
look at the date, you'll probably notice a great deal of clock skew.

Battstat polls /proc/apm once per second, which is kind of overkill, but there's
no simple way to change this AFAIK.

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:40:50 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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