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Gateway Solo 5100 PS/2 keyboard/mouse is periodically laggy
I have just acquired a Gateway Solo 5100 laptop because nobody else wanted it.
The keyboard and mouse both behave in the same way - periodically, the keyboard and mouse stop responding for about 2 seconds. All the keys I've pressed in that period then suddenly appear, and the mouse starts to move a bit.
I've tried this with the laptop's own keyboard and an external PS/2 keyboard, still the same problem. However, with an external USB keyboard, the problems are gone.
It's not just Linux, either - it even happens in the BIOS setup program, and FreeBSD.
Another problem which might be related (or might not): before Linux is loaded, while a USB keyboard is plugged in, the screen stops updating (or the whole system freezes - not quite sure) until it is unplugged, at which point everything continues as normal. This doesn't happen once Linux starts.
In my dmesg, I see "Keyboard timed out[1]" three times.
Firmware is PhoenixBIOS 4.0 release 6.0
Last edited by xlq; 10-11-2008 at 06:25 AM.
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