Bug 17099 – keyboard locks at console

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Derek Dolney 2003-03-08 13:10:34 UTC]

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"

[Comment 1 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 02:15:59 UTC]

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 

[Comment 2 Derek Dolney 2003-04-27 14:26:56 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 14:30:14 UTC]

good to hear. 
 
thanks, 
 
Jay