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Subject: i386/30898: Inspiron 8100 keyboard unusable off mains power
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>Number:         30898
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Inspiron 8100 keyboard unusable off mains power
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 28 15:20:00 PDT 2001
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brad Laue
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD Olduvai.brad-x.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0

Stock Inspiron 8100 with one battery

>Description:

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.

>How-To-Repeat:

Use the system off utility power for extended periods.

>Fix:

Not known.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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