After emerging alsa-drivers and alsa-utils, I started seeing errors like this in my syslog: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xe0 on isa0060/serio). Use 'setkeycodes e060 <keycode>' to make it known. ... and having dropped keys as a result. I had seen this on a prior gentoo install and hadn't figured it out. But this time, I had just installed alsa-drivers and alsa-utils. So, I unmerged those packages and have been using my system for a week without any keyboard errors. I therefore suspect that alsa-drivers and/or alsa-utils interferes with the keyboard drivers somehow. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash cdr crypt cups curl eds encode esd fam fbcon font-server foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icecast imlib innodb ipv6 j2ee jack java javascript jpeg junit kernel_linux ladcca libg++ libwww mad mime mono mozdevelop mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba sdl spell ssl svg tcpd tidy tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Oops... I forgot I was going to include this url from the forums where people are trying to figure out this error: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-276445-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
Ahn crap... nevermind..... I'm getting the "Unknown keycode pressed" errors again... and I still don't have alsa installed. Sorry if I sent anyone looking into a red herring. Sigh.
