On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:57:21PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > A couple of days ago (and, I think, after swapping the keyvboard), I > finally upgraded the kernel on my ppc64 to 3.0.0. Booted ok and > xorg/nouveau seemed ok, but vim (in urxvt) was "difficult" - only the > most basic keys worked, no cursor movement from the arrows or PgUp / > PgDown, and no ESC although Ctrl-C gave me ESC. Weird. Very Weird. > Well, that bit is mainly software - I share my monitor between my desktop boxes with a kvm switch. For a long time (maybe the 2.6.18 kernel, maybe early 2.6.2x, maybe longer) there has been intermittent mouse weirdness (usually, spurious selections/pasting) which gets worse when I change machines [ so, mostly, I only have one desktop powered up ]. Tonight, I lost my mouse clicks in the gimp - assumed I had to wait for my nfs drive to power up [ it spins down when idle after 11pm ] so went to a different desktop to make notes in vim and saw the same "no cursor arrows, no ESC, but Ctrl-C does the ESC" situation - this on linux-3.0 (x86_64) on a box where 3.0 had been in use on several days in the past week without problems.
So, it's a kernel problem, and too unpredictable to be bisectable (even if I had the time). Yeugh. Roll on my next holiday, I'm losing patience with this. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
