Hi,
I had the very same problem with my R32 and it was driving me nuts big time. I
called IBM and they told me I can send it in. But since two weeks the
problems are totally gone. (Before that even more keys were beginning to get
stuck - I deleted half of my inbox when I pressed the "Delete" Key to remove
some spam email.)
The whole trick was to use ACPI. I got myself the 2.4.21-pre5 kernel and
patched it with acpi-20030228-2.4.21-pre4.diff.gz (the latest available at
that time). Furthermore you need to get the ECDT overrides from
http://poupinou.org/acpi/ibm_ecdt.html to make ACPI work (buggy firmware).
Using this new kernel the keyboard works like a charm, BUT all the buttons
stop working, the battery information is gone, the Thinklight doesn't work
anymore and the brightness buttons have no effect anymore. I find it a lot
more important to be able to type, though.
BTW, I had a de_DE layout and changed that to an en_US layout (both had the
problem).
It seems like the hardware somehow depends on ACPI being active...
If you somehow find more information let me know.
On Saturday March 29 2003 18:08, Nicholas A. Preyss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> another of the small problems i face during running Linux on my Thinkpad
> R32 seems related to the keyboard driver. The keys Control (both), Alt,
> AltGr, Shift (both) seem sometimes to stay pressed after using it. After
> pressing the key another time, this behaviour ends and all works normal
> again. This happens very unregulary. My thinkpad is featured with a
> de_CH keyboard, but i had contact with another R32 user with de_DE
> layout who faced the same problem..
>
> nicholas
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C'ya
Matthias
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