KDSKBENT errors - solved
Petr Danecek
danecek at ucl.cas.cz
Sat Jul 1 08:39:03 UTC 2006
Dear Dave,
thank you for your advice and explanation. Updating kbd package helped.
Petr
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:28 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Petr Danecek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Your kbd package needs updating.
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
> > thank you for your response. May I ask you for a little more informative
> > answer? Even if the kbd package needs updating (i will check this right
> > away), everything works fine with the default Fedora kernel.
> > I do not understand why updating from kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 to
> > linux-2.6.15.7 should result in such a strange behaviour??
>
> Because the behaviour changed in 2.6.15. It was a security issue iirc,
> where a user could program a key to do something after they had logged out.
> 2.6.15 closed that hole, but broke userspace. Hence, an updated kbd that
> did things differently was needed.
>
> Dave
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