E521 Keyboard key problem

[Michael Hansen]

Well, I haven't tried passing those boot options, because I never had the
problem.  I wish I did so I could help you more.  But, I did find this page:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/39315 that is
full of suggestions to fix the problem, some of which include the clock
problem you're thinking it might be.  Some worked for some people, others
didn't.  But, you may want to look there.  I realize that's an Ubuntu forum,
but the problem you describe is not distro-specific, far as I can tell.

I really hope you get this fixed.

Regards,
Mike

P.S.  I'd still upgrade that xorg, or at least make sure you patch it.  I
don't know what you use the computer for, but there are a number of public
(and private) exploits for that particular version.  Most of the warnings
out there say there is a "possibilty" of executing arbitrary code.  I know
this to be not a possibility, but an actuality.  Anyway, just a heads-up.
:)



On 3/23/07, Simon Gao <gao at schrodinger.com> wrote:
>
> 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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