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Re: arrow key problem, kernel 2.2.19pre17



On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:24:56PM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> After upgrading to kernel-image-2.2.19pre17-pmac, I can no longer use my
> right arrow key. It is not sending any key events at all, according to xev
> and showkey. The keys worked fine under a 2.2.18 kernel I compiled myself
> from kernel.org sources.
> 
> I have a slot-loading iMac with an Apple USB keyboard (the old mini
> keyboards). I boot with "keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1". The proper
> keycode for the right arrow should be 113.
> 
> Anyone else having similar problems? Any clues? I looked briefly through
> the patches from 2.2.18 to 2.2.19pre17 but didn't find anything obvious.
> If no one knows what's wrong then I'll do some more testing and take the
> discussion to the linuxppc-dev mailing list.

i vaguely remember benh grumbling about this on irc a couple weeks ago,
iirc he finally figured out that the kernel decided that the arrow key
should be sysrq or something silly like that.  is sysrq turned on in
this kernel?  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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