Hi, I have an IBM R40-e laptop and a linux-2.6.7 kernel with KDB (kdb-v4.4-2.6.7-*) compiled into it.
However, once I enter the kdb> prompt the "keyboard" starts behaving erratically: I have observed the following erratic behavior: 1. Some characters are not echoed on the screen 2. Sometime characters are only echoed in uppercase; in this case it is almost impossible to shift to lower case (hitting Caps Lock does not help; though hitting it multiple times may allow lower case characters to be inserted) This almost makes it impossible to use a KDB with my laptop. I tried to debug the problem by using kdb_prinf() in the arch/i386/kdb/kdba_io.c::get_kbd_char(). But this would almost reboot the machine once I entered the kdb prompt (probably a buffer overflow, though I am not sure) This problem is similar to one posted on the mailing list by Zhang, Sonic. This can be located at http://oss.sgi.com/archives/kdb/2002-12/msg00039.html Questions: 1. Has anyone encountered this problem and corrected it? 2. Is there a solution to this problem? 3. How should I debug this problem further? thanks in advance /manjunath --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
