Re: Damned hardware! ;-)

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
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