Xfree86 bug related.

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Feb 4 17:12:28 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 04.02.2004 schrieb jeffrin_jose at rajagiritech.ac.in um 16:59:
> hello ,
> 
> I have Fedora Core 1 one in my home PC.
> It' reports a bug like this ...
> 
> atkbd.c : This is an XFree86 bug .It should not access hardware directly.
> atkbd.c: unknown key released (translated set 2,code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> 
> Please tell me if possible what the error message indicates.

Quoting
http://lwn.net/Articles/69107/


> Problem:
> ~~~~~~~~
> 
> Kernel reports:
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> 	atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
> 
> Solution:
> ~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Well, the kernel means what it says. XFree86 boldly goes and accesses the
> keyboard controller registers when it starts up. This is a bad thing to do,
> as it can conflict with the kernel using these registers at the same time.
> The kernel spots this and complains, and in most cases is not affected by
> the problem.
> 
> So, unless you are an XFree86 developer and can fix X, ignore this message.

HTH

CU
thl





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