[cumbria_lug] Log Flooding

[Dezza Kaye]

Hi CLUGers,


I've had the following problem since I got my laptop a year ago...
it's one of those things that I've never got around to fixing. I'm
using a Dell Vostro 1000 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with kernel  2.6.24-21.

This issue seems to be apparent on a large number of Dell laptops, my
own included, and has been mentioned on the Ubuntu (and even Fedora)
forums a few times. Unfortunately, I've had little success with what's
been suggested.

Some part of the hardware (I suspect the power circuitry, although I
may be wrong) sends a heartbeat keystroke every second. This results
in the logs being flooded with entries like this:

dezza at Dezza-Laptop:/etc$ tail /var/log/syslog
Oct 28 20:27:55 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11152.694598] atkbd.c: Unknown
key released (raw set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 28 20:27:55 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11152.694603] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
Oct 28 20:27:56 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11153.706537] atkbd.c: Unknown
key pressed (raw set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 28 20:27:56 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11153.706542] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
Oct 28 20:27:56 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11153.722096] atkbd.c: Unknown
key released (raw set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 28 20:27:56 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11153.722102] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
Oct 28 20:27:57 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11154.710534] atkbd.c: Unknown
key pressed (raw set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 28 20:27:57 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11154.710540] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
Oct 28 20:27:57 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11154.725859] atkbd.c: Unknown
key released (raw set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 28 20:27:57 Dezza-Laptop kernel: [11154.725864] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.


Linux is clever enough to just ignore these, but print annoying
messages to the log. Windows however (when unfortunately the need
arises) has a similar issue - I can't hold down a key for more than a
second, or drag a scroll-bar etc.

One suggestion I read was to assign it to something. This did stop the
log messages, but I then had a similar problem to windows, and the
screen saver would never activate.

One place where it does annoy me is during boot up. I have the splash
screen disabled, but unfortunately, the nice list of [OK]'s down the
side of the screen is interspersed with messages similar to the above.

So my question is: Is there a way I can configure it to either stop
sending these messages out, or does anyone know of a fix that works
properly?

Many Thanks

Derek