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Apparantly bad keyboard interface on cutter-john.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lesniewski-Laas)
Sun May 2 10:07:36 2004
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 10:05:14 -0400
From: Chris Lesniewski-Laas <ctl@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@mit.edu
Cc: sipb-office@mit.edu
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cutter-john.mit.edu, a Dell GX110 in the SIPB office W20-557, appears
to have a broken keyboard interface. Messing around with the
XF86Config and with console mode indicates that keypresses are somehow
being interpreted as PS/2 mouse events. This is reproducible with
various keyboards and under both X and a regular text console. This
may be an indication that the motherboard is shot, although I guess we
can't entirely rule out misconfiguration as a possibility. (This
possibility seems remote given that the problem is present in both X
and console mode, and persists across reboots.)
The machine is currently powered off with a note that it is broken.
Cheers,
Chris
