[ltp] Keyboard lockups on t41p

Vincent Touquet linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:52:29 +0200


On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
>I see pause, repeated letters, restart when I'm using ssh over wireless
>(ipw2100), but not on ethernet.

I don't use wireless for now, so that cannot be the issue here.

>If I'm running gkrellm I see the network meter disapear and then come back
>during the pause, so I assumed that it was just a dodgy n/w driver, but
>come to think of it that wouldn't give repeated letters.

True. As I gathered from lkml, there were issues with the acpi timer.
Couldn't that cause the meters and the input system go funky (repeat
threshold suddenly gets much lower as time goes faster ?).

>I wonder if juggling the interupt assignmens about would help? Theres a
>lot of stuff rammed on IRQ11.

Hm, you would get dropped interrupt messages, but not something like
this, no ?

v