On Wed, 29 May 2002 18:23:18 -0700
Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:19:45AM -0700, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> >
> >Folks,
> >
> >Does anyone know of a function/product/tool that will allow us to capture
> >all incoming keystrokes from the keyboard for investigation?
> >
> >We are getting an intermittent lockup that seems to be triggered by a
> >keystroke pattern from a particular brand of keyboard and need to
> >decipher*why*.
> 
> One could run ``script'' which captures everything to a file.

Or expect, which is surely already installed. You can even play it back
to see if it is repeatable. Provided the codes make it out of the kernel.
If there is a lockup, then a user-level app may be too late in the chain to
tell very much. Have you checked for debugging options on the kernel
keyboard stuff? Don't know if there is any, but you mey gety lucky. Does
this heppen in X or in console mode? And, what exactly gets locked up?

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