[CS-FSLUG] Hardware or kernel?

[Fred A. Miller]

On Sunday 19 June 2005 5:43 pm, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On my Compaq laptop, the battery is toast. So when the community power
> went down the other day, the system died in use. It was running SUSE
> 9.2, and the Reiser file system seemed to comeback just fine. However,
> the keyboard is now misbehaving very badly.
>
> Many keypresses are ignored, making password login a bear on the
> console. Some key presses "stick" and print 30 times before I can get
> it to stop. This despite the key action being physically normal. This
> effect seems worse in X. Any ideas?

It's possible that x (x.org) got messed up when the power went off. You MAY 
have to do a reinstall. I'll be making disks for you tonight, by the way, and 
if my back will let me, get them in the mail to you tomorrow.

Fred

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