Re: Very strange behavior of the special keys on a IBM T40

Arne Schwabe <[email protected]> writes:

> Peter Schuller <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> I have very strange and annoying problem with my T40. Whenever I press
>>> some "special keys" like volume up/down brightness up/down, Thinklight
>>> on/off FreeBSD just freezes.
>>> This is with a current kernel.
>>>
>>> Anyone any suggestion what I could do to narrow this down?
>>
>> Would you by any chance be running with an extra ultra bay battery in place on 
>> the CD/DVD? If so, try removing it (and rebooting). If you're having the same 
>> problem I have on my T40p, that should eliminate the hangs. As a result I'm 
>> almost never using the extra battery :(
>
> I have a extra ultra bay battery but I makes no difference. :/
>
> Could you send me your kernel config, maybe I have something weird in
> my config?

Okay, I tried your kernel config but the same result brightness
up/down freezes the kernel.

Without acpi the kernel freezes after something like 1-2 minutes :(

Arne
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