Thinkpad T42, keyboard sometimes hosed when coming out of ACPI sleep

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Dec 8 21:03:25 UTC 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Juergen Botz wrote:

> I have a new IBM Thinkpad T42, FC3 with all updates, stock
> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel + iwp2200 driver (0.13).  Everyone once
> in a while when I wake from ACPI S3 sleep my keyboard is hosed...
> the first key I press starts rapidly auto-repeating, which can't
> be stopped, and pressing any key produces either no visible
> action or some other character (not the one normally on that
> key) which also auto repeats madly.
> 
> It doesn't always happen, only maybe 10% of the time I come
> out of S3.  I can't switch to different vt since ctrl-alt-fN
> don't work, and since I am rarely on a text console I have
> no idea whether it would happen there.  Putting the machine
> back to sleep and re-waking doesn't fix it, so my only option
> has been to reboot via the 'Actions' menu (mouse is ok through
> all this.)
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?  Any solution?  Ideas?

I've had this happen to me today on a T40 from APM with
2.6.9-1.698_FC3 & madwifi. My good run with APM has run out. Don't
know how to track what went wrong.

But I had recently enabled selinux. So - I guess I should disable it
again - and see if this thing happens again.

Oh well..
Satish




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