E521 Keyboard key problem

[Simon Gao]

Thanks all for the information.

Have you tried anything like passing kernel boot options like"noapic 
acpi=off pci=routeirq clock=pmtmr"?

It seems that such problem occurs after time is out of sync, like 
following errors recorded in syslog. Even after adding "clock=pmtmr", it 
does not help very much.

Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip 0x2b9fa448eba0

I also tried CentOS 5 (RHEL5) which uses xorg-x11-7.1.1. I managed to 
get a few times of similar problem even though not as easily as with 
CentOS 4.4.

Simon


Eric Grejda wrote:
> Michael Hansen wrote:
>   
>> It seems people had the same problem with xorg-x11-6.8.2.  Here is a bug
>> report essentially describing your problem exactly:
>> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=xorg-team&a=2007-03&m=3317856
>>  
>> So, it looks like an update/patch of xorg is in order, as this isn't a
>> Dell-only problem.
>>     
>
> I've run into this quite a bit on my Inspiron 700m when using the built-in
> keyboard.  I'm running X.org v7.1 on my laptop.
>
> This doesn't happen when I'm using a USB keyboard, though.
>
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