On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > > First, we'd need a little bit more information about the hardware in > > question, I guess. > Dell Latitude D820 laptop, with a USB-connected Microsoft Natural > keyboard. I don't think it's the USB subsystem going *completely* > bonkers, as the USB-connected trackball mouse functions just fine when > this happens... Does this happen only when Microsoft natural keyboard is connected, or does it happen also when you use the built-in keyboard? What vendor/product ID does the USB keyboard have, please? > > What laptop is that, please? Is the keyboard PS/2-connected or > > USB-connected? Could you obtain evtest output from the buggy cases please? > Hmm.. Got a pointer to a usable copy? All decent distros ship this, usually as part of input-utils package. > The best I could find googling for > 'linux evtest' was: > https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/packages/utils/event_test/src/evtest.c > which wants a /dev/inputN - all I have is /dev/input/ and entries under that > for the laptop's onboard mousepad and the trackball mouse, no keyboard entry. Yes, /dev/input/eventN is used these days (when CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is turned on). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
