Bug 108514 – Alsa-drivers/Alsa-utils suspected of causing keyboard problems

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Ben 2005-10-08 10:22:42 UTC]

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:
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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

[Comment 1 Ben 2005-10-08 10:30:52 UTC]

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

[Comment 2 Ben 2005-10-12 08:28:47 UTC]

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.