Bug 30898

Summary: Inspiron 8100 keyboard unusable off mains power
Product: Base System Reporter: brad <brad>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description brad 2001-09-28 23:20:00 UTC 
I quite commonly use my laptop off utility power, and commonly am around  
40% battery remaining when I still need to get things done; as such I've
noticed a couple of things that happen in this extreme.

This only happens off utility power, and it debilitates the system.
Keypresses will not return their usual keymappings, instead returning
garbled characters (large numbers of them, one press of the 'r' key filled
my screen with every ASCII character I could think of).

This problem also activates control keys, causing 'r' to generate random
ctrl+key or fn+key sequences.

A reboot does not help, as the problem survives system reset. The problem
does not occur when Windows 2000 SP2 is running on the same system.

Fix: 

Not known.
How-To-Repeat: 
Use the system off utility power for extended periods.
Comment 1 brad 2002-06-08 15:01:05 UTC 
Please close this PR, the issue was found to be unrelated to FreeBSD.
Comment 2 matusita freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-06-08 16:45:48 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The original submitter says that it is not related to FreeBSD.