Strange keyboard behaviour w/laptop

[Guest section DW]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:56:11AM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:

> My laptop (Toshiba 4015CDS) has always had this problem, but lately it
> seems to be much more frequent.  (I wonder if there is an increase in
> sunspot activity because my machines have all been acting weird
> lately...)  On bootup, immediately after the "Freeing unused kernel
> memory" message, the console starts to spit out "^[[21~" (minus quotes)
> over and over and over again.  If I press any key on the keyboard, it
> stops, so it's certainly not fatal, just annoying.  It's happened with
> all the 2.2 kernels I've tried and also 2.3.40 and 2.3.41.
> 
> Apologies if this is a known situation, all the search engines I tried
> choked on trying to search for ^[[21~ ...  :)

The default keymap binds
	string F10 = "\033[21~"
so probably your F10 function key is stuck.

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