On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:36 -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: > > > The keyboard is missing keystrokes if I type > > > too many at one time and don't pause every few seconds for it to > > > catch up. This happens even before I log into gdm, if I go to a > > > console with ctl-alt-F1 and log in as root after reboot, events is > > > already eating cpu and keystrokes are lost. What's going on? > > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Did you upgrade the kernel in the last day or so? If not, > > do you have any idea what might have changed? > > I tried rebooting earlier and that didn't help. But I shut > down for a while and now it is fine. I did replace my CPU > fan recently, and my replacement battery melted down > (literally melted-- yikes). Maybe I damaged a sensor or > something. The other thought was, does TiMidity feed some > events? I don't know why it was running by default. The "events/<number>" tasks are used by device drivers and other kernel code, but not by userland. Something in the kernel is generating a constant stream of work for this task to do. > > Do these warnings mean anything to you? > > > > [ 57.141392] thinkpad_acpi: setting the hotkey mask to > > 0x00ffffff is likely not the best way to go about it [ > > 57.141400] thinkpad_acpi: please consider using the driver > > defaults, and refer to up-to-date thinkpad-acpi > > documentation > > That's been happening for a while. I think the thinkpad > acpi driver is out of date. Well, the whole of Linux 2.6.32 is now out of date. But we want to maintain a working kernel with minimal changes for the next 2 years or so! > I should probably recompile a > custom kernel and use the tp-smapi driver instead. I can't recommend that. > It gives > the autopark shock feature with hdapsd too, which is not > in the stock kernels. I don't know if it's a license issue > or what. I don't think this is related. > > We can downgrade the importance of this... maybe it was a > hardware glitch or a fluke. Yes, it can happen. Ben.
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