[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Steve Baker]

Kevin Brannen wrote:

> This has been an interesting thread to follow, especially since I'm not 
> experiencing it. :-)

Yeah - I could see how that would be more fun!

> That is truly bizarre behavior!  Since it happens with different video 
> card drivers, that makes it sound like it's actually in the keyboard 
> routines.  So the bug is probably somewhere down in libX11.*.  It would 
> be fun to know if you have this same problem with 9.2...

The other guy who posted here with the same problem is indeed running
SuSE 9.2.

> ...since that's the 
> new Xorg code instead of the XFree86 code.  Not that I believe the Xorg 
> code is really any better at this point in time, but it's differentness 
> might be useful to you.  Any chance of upgrading soon?

Well, at some point I'd like to actually get some work done - and continually
upgrading stuff definitely isn't conducive to that!

The 'beep' I get when I hit the keys (after it's locked up) sounds exactly
like the beep you get if you type more than a handful of characters while
your BIOS is starting to boot the PC.  I believe that comes about because
the keyboard interrupt isn't being serviced so eventually, the keyboard
UART's short hardware buffer fills up - and somehow that causes a beep.

This makes me suspect that something is shutting out the keyboard
interrupt or something.

> Part of me wants to blame this on the framebuffer code...

Sorry - I'm not with you.  'framebuffer code' ??

> ...and advise you 
> not to use it since that code seems to cause random grief, but I can't 
> see how it would be affecting the keyboard.  Still, if you got time to 
> try it, reboot and put "vga=normal" in your boot line and see if the 
> problem comes back.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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