On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:11, Terence Golightly wrote:
> List,
>
> Below I have attached an excerpt of dmesg from the other night. Of
> particular interest is the messages from X about an illegal attempt
> to access hardware.
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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.
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AFAIK this just means the author of atkbd.c doesn't agree with the way
XFree86 code accesses the hardware.
> I left my machine with the desktop locked and was doing other things.
> I returned and found a login screen. I tried to log back in but was
> immediately kicked out. I was able to login using an Alt+Fn screen
> and tried to check things over. Eventuall I just rebooted and was
> able to then login. It was a particularly stormy evening and I did
> note some messages verifying that the ups was logging brief power
> outages (lightening strikes?). I am concerned since I noted in a
> recent thread about seeing shorewall messages on my local terminals
> (alt+F1 etc). So I guess I'm asking did someone attempt illegal
> access to my machine or perhaps my apcupsd software is buggy?
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
>
> Terry
HTH,
-Frans
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