Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

[Paul Johnson]

On Monday, October 15, 2012, Paul Allen Newell wrote:

> On 10/15/2012 4:01 PM, JD wrote:
>
>>
>> One final, but remote chance - do you have  xorg.conf in /etc/X11 or any
>> of it's sub-dirs?
>> If yes, delete it or rename it, and reboot - it could be the cause by
>> loading wrong KB driver.
>>
>
> JD:
>
> Thanks for reply. I took a look and do not see any xorg.conf. That file
> was always a problem for me in the earlier days when it was necessary and I
> really am hoping I don't have to do one now!
>
> There is a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-**system-setup-keyboard.conf (or
> something to that effect as I am writing from memory given the Fedora box
> is downstairs and I'm on my upstairs box)
>
> I compared the contents to the one on one of my F16 machines and they are
> the same


Hi!
I am nearly certain this is accidental triggering of SLOW KEYS , a feature
to assist the physically impaired. It gets triggered if you rest your
finger on the shift key for 10 seconds. The kb is not dead, but slow. Rest
finger in shift 10 seconds again, slow keys turns off.  Ways exist to
reconfigure, there is a long bug report in the reshot bugzilla. I can't
send link from this phone,  but you should search . You'll find my name );
Pj



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Re: installing to external disk: esata now!

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha
 wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Paul Johnson  wrote:
>> If one of you knows the similar recipe for esata, I would very much
>> appreciate it.
>
> You'll need a driver for the SATA controller that is built into your
> PC.

I think Don is not quite right here.  From what I can tell, the sata
drivers are loaded and present and they also make the external thing
work, it is the same stack.

I have installed Fedora 12 to an external SATA device with no trouble.
It works just like installing to an external USB.  That proves the
"principle" is good, and I just need to figure out if there is a way
to figure out what their magic is and apply it in Centos.

I am starting to think the problems I'm having with Centos are due to
the somewhat-well-known problem with support for sata drives in the
old kernels.  In the 2.6.18 era, there were plenty of reports about
sata drivers not being loaded early enough in the boot process.  The
symptom was that Fedora-7 or 8 would install on sata drives, but if
there were several drives in the system, somehow one or more would not
get recognized.  This is at the level of technical detail where I just
have to trust the experts in the linux kernel mailing list.  From what
I can tell it was apparently addressed in the 2.6.26 era.  It could be
I have some completely separate problem.

I have not tried to update a kernel on a Centos system to use a
Fedora-12 generation kernel.  The whole point of using Centos is
"stability", after all.  But I'm temped to try.

PJ
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Re: Odd /proc/cpuinfo

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner  wrote:
>
>    So I never paid attention to this since I always assumed the system
> will do The Right Thing (TM), however while going through servers today,
> I came across this discrepancy and was hoping someone here could help me
> figure out what's going on.
>
>    While 'cat'ing /proc/cpuinfo I see this (other information removed):
>
>        vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>        cpu family      : 15
>        model           : 4
>        model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
>        stepping        : 10
>        cpu MHz         : 2400.000
>        cache size      : 2048 KB
>
>    Someone please explain to me how the CPU is a 3.4GHz CPU (which I've
> verified by reading it right off of the top of the processor) and yet
> two lines down it says that it's 2400.000 MHz (or 2.4GHz)  What happened
> with the missing 1GHz?  The second CPU reports the same thing.
>

Speedstep?

By default, it is running, even on newish desktops, and they don't
always go "full out".

pj


>    Is this a motherboard issue?  Possibly not configured right?  If so,
> boy do I feel stupid considering this machine has been in production for
> a long time and no one's ever noticed.
>
>    Comments?
>
>    A
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