[ale] Quite annoying message in the Ring Buffer

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Jan 17 00:47:18 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 17:12 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> I have had a similar but slightly different problem.
> A machine with a MS wireless keyboard also did produce similar
> complaints, when certain keys were pressed, or perhaps spontaneously. 
> The solution was to put this into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>   # Suppress 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' from MS keybd
>   setkeycodes e059 254 
>   setkeycodes e03b 254 
>   setkeycodes e001 254 
> 
> This maps three weird key codes to '254', which is a no-op.
> Maybe you can do the same for 'e00d'.

Ahh.  That seems to have done the trick---I do not have the messages
showing up in my ring buffer anymore.  Thanks!

	--- Mike

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