Re: KDSKBENT errors - solved
Dear Dave,
thank you for your advice and explanation. Updating kbd package helped.
Petr
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:28 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Petr Danecek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Your kbd package needs updating.
> >
> > Dave
>
> thank you for your response. May I ask you for a little more informative
> answer? Even if the kbd package needs updating (i will check this right
> away), everything works fine with the default Fedora kernel.
> I do not understand why updating from kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 to
> linux-2.6.15.7 should result in such a strange behaviour??
Because the behaviour changed in 2.6.15. It was a security issue iirc,
where a user could program a key to do something after they had logged out.
2.6.15 closed that hole, but broke userspace. Hence, an updated kbd that
did things differently was needed.
Dave