Very strange behavior of the special keys on a IBM T40

[Arne Schwabe]

Peter Schuller <peter.schuller at infidyne.com> writes:

>> I have very strange and annoying problem with my T40. Whenever I press
>> some "special keys" like volume up/down brightness up/down, Thinklight
>> on/off FreeBSD just freezes.
>> This is with a current kernel.
>>
>> Anyone any suggestion what I could do to narrow this down?
>
> Would you by any chance be running with an extra ultra bay battery in place on 
> the CD/DVD? If so, try removing it (and rebooting). If you're having the same 
> problem I have on my T40p, that should eliminate the hangs. As a result I'm 
> almost never using the extra battery :(

I have a extra ultra bay battery but I makes no difference. :/

Could you send me your kernel config, maybe I have something weird in
my config?

Arne
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