Re: Keyboard sometimes freeze

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From: Karsten Ballueder
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:00

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>>>>> "David" == Karu Ratnam <kr01@gte.com> writes:

    David> After I posted it, I searched old postings for answer from
    David> dejanews.  The problem exists on compaq EP series (mine is
    David> EN).  They sugest the problem is partial keyboard reset by
    David> linux which the compaq motherboard doesn't like.  There
    David> seems to be a patch for kernal 2.1.?? but I installed
    David> RedHat 5.1 and Kernal 2.0.34?, and still haven't figured
    David> out how to solve it for this earlier version of the kernal.
    David> Is it possible to just download the kernal 2.1.xx and the
    David> kbd patch and change the image file accorrdignly to use the
    David> new kernal, and keep the 2.0 libraries? Will it work?

I had the same problem. Ugrading to 2.0.35 fixed it. Just replace the kernel sources in /usr/src/linux
recompile/install the image.

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From: Karsten Ballueder <Ballueder@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Keyboard sometimes freeze
Date: 1998/10/21
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