I have a Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro keyboard. It works fine in X, but it freezes periodically on the console. It will lock up after ~5 minutes typing on the console. After another few minutes it unlocks, only to lock up again later. This does not happen with other keyboards. I have an older, non-cordless, that I switch to if I have to work on the console for more than a few minutes. I am using the gentoo-sources kernel 2.4.20, but this problem also happened with older, non-gentoo (redhat 2.4.3 and 2.4.19, if I remember right) kernels. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Switch to console 2.Type for a few minutes 3. Actual Results: Keyboard locks. No buttons do anything at all. Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="oss perl esd -arts -avi -berkdb -crypt -cups -encode -imlib -kde -libg++ -libwww -mikmod -motif -nls -oggvorbis -pam -python -qt -qtmt -sdl -slang -ssl -svga -tcpd -xmms x86 3dnow apm bonobo gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk java jpeg maildir mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses opengl pdflib pic png quicktime readline spell tcltk tetex truetype X xml2 xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"
sounds like the fix for what you have occurring is here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/1338.html please let me know if it helps. Jay
I didn't try this patch. This problem went away at some point, but I'm not sure when because I've been avoiding the console. I can't reproduce the problem with kernels 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 nor 2.4.20-gentoo-r3.
good to hear. thanks, Jay
