No irq handler for vector -> dead keyboard

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/26/2012 10:51 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I've been getting a ton of these.  They seem to persist across kernel
> updates ever since I first put F17 on.  Once they start happening,
> usually within a few hours of a reboot, they PS2 keyboard stops
> working right (first keypress is lost, autorepeat keypresses come
> through) although restarting X seems to fix them.
>

At first I was thinking that it was a hardware issue, but if so, 
restarting X wouldn't help.

> Unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in does not fix anything.

Well, no, of course not.  Unless my memory's worse than usual, the only 
way to get your computer to recognize a PS2 keyboard's been plugged in 
is to reboot.