Hi all...
I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was
enough).
Results:
- mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X
- mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it
responding.
- mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish.
In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above.
If you need more info, I have dmesg's, or still can boot on those kernels.
Perhaps this gives some clue. I will scan the changelog for -mm3.
TIA
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werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586
Linux 2.6.9-rc3-mm2 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #1
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:45 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was
> enough).
>
> Results:
> - mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X
> - mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it
> responding.
> - mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish.
>
> In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above.
>
What about vanilla -rc3 and vanilla -rc3 with bk-input patch applied (if you
have some time of course). Do they exibit the same symptoms as -mm tree?
--
Dmitry
On 2004.10.06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:45 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > Hi all...
> >
> > I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was
> > enough).
> >
> > Results:
> > - mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X
> > - mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it
> > responding.
> > - mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish.
> >
> > In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above.
> >
>
> What about vanilla -rc3 and vanilla -rc3 with bk-input patch applied (if you
> have some time of course). Do they exibit the same symptoms as -mm tree?
>
Both rc3 and rc3-bk.input work. Even rc3-mm2 works, depending on how I boot ;).
This is getting really strange....look:
ll /boot:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2004.10.05 14:16 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485335 2004.09.16 23:28 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc2-mm1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1500553 2004.09.23 22:50 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc2-mm2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1501867 2004.09.24 16:20 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc2-mm3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1498557 2004.10.01 01:05 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc2-mm4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1448740 2004.10.06 22:49 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1451900 2004.10.06 23:57 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-bk.input
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506097 2004.10.04 00:32 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505218 2004.10.05 20:12 vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
lilo.conf:
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
default="linux"
append="psmouse.proto=exps"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
...
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
label="linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2"
If I boot with the default entry, mouse does not work. If I boot with
the specific entry in lilo for rc3-mm2, it works.
dmesg diff:
--- dm-1 2004-10-07 00:22:10.616105982 +0200
+++ dm-2 2004-10-07 00:22:10.616105982 +0200
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Initializing CPU#0
-Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=801 psmouse.proto=exps 3
+Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 ro root=801 psmouse.proto=exps 3
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=b03d2000 soft=b03ce000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
-Detected 2405.595 MHz processor.
+Detected 2405.625 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x60
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
@@ -225,17 +225,17 @@
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
- pIII_sse : 3072.000 MB/sec
-raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3072.000 MB/sec)
+ pIII_sse : 3044.000 MB/sec
+raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3044.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 664 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 882 MB/s
-raid6: int32x4 613 MB/s
+raid6: int32x4 617 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 464 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1949 MB/s
-raid6: mmxx2 2441 MB/s
-raid6: sse1x1 1164 MB/s
+raid6: mmxx2 2437 MB/s
+raid6: sse1x1 1160 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 2386 MB/s
-raid6: sse2x1 2605 MB/s
+raid6: sse2x1 2601 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2707 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2707 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8
@@ -296,14 +296,14 @@
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
+drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3404
+usbcore: registered new driver usblp
+drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
-drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3404
-usbcore: registered new driver usblp
-drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
@@ -357,5 +357,5 @@
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
-intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49595 usecs
+intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50582 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
(NOTE: look at the diff in usblp position....)
Somebody understands this ? Are there gremlins in my box ?
Why the init order of usblp is dependent on lilo entry ? It does not depend even
on different builds, as if some link order was broken, it is the same
kernel image accessed with a different name...
???
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J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es> \ Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586
Linux 2.6.9-rc3-mm2 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #2
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:30:22PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> On 2004.10.06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:45 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> >> Hi all...
> >>
> >> I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was
> >> enough).
> >>
> >> Results:
> >> - mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X
> >> - mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it
> >> responding.
> >> - mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish.
> >>
> >> In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above.
> >>
> >
> >What about vanilla -rc3 and vanilla -rc3 with bk-input patch applied (if
> >you
> >have some time of course). Do they exibit the same symptoms as -mm tree?
> >
>
> Both rc3 and rc3-bk.input work. Even rc3-mm2 works, depending on how I boot
> ;).
> This is getting really strange....look:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2004.10.05 14:16 vmlinuz ->
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
>
> lilo.conf:
> default="linux"
> append="psmouse.proto=exps"
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="linux"
> ...
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
> label="linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2"
>
> If I boot with the default entry, mouse does not work. If I boot with
> the specific entry in lilo for rc3-mm2, it works.
>
> dmesg diff:
> -Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=801 psmouse.proto=exps 3
> +Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 ro root=801
>
> Somebody understands this ? Are there gremlins in my box ?
A week or so ago I had a problem and couldnt see which changeset
caused it. After a binary search it turned out to be the changeset
that changed the (length of the) kernel version string.
A wild pointer was harmless at first, but after shifting everything
by a few bytes it caused crashes.
Probably (hopefully) your problem is something entirely different,
but it is not impossible that kernel behaviour depends on kernel name.
On 2004.10.07, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:30:22PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> >
> > On 2004.10.06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:45 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > >> Hi all...
> > >>
> > >> I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was
> > >> enough).
> > >>
> > >> Results:
> > >> - mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X
> > >> - mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it
> > >> responding.
> > >> - mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish.
> > >>
> > >> In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above.
> > >>
> > >
> > >What about vanilla -rc3 and vanilla -rc3 with bk-input patch applied (if
> > >you
> > >have some time of course). Do they exibit the same symptoms as -mm tree?
> > >
> >
> > Both rc3 and rc3-bk.input work. Even rc3-mm2 works, depending on how I boot
> > ;).
> > This is getting really strange....look:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2004.10.05 14:16 vmlinuz ->
> > vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
> >
> > lilo.conf:
> > default="linux"
> > append="psmouse.proto=exps"
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label="linux"
> > ...
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2
> > label="linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2"
> >
> > If I boot with the default entry, mouse does not work. If I boot with
> > the specific entry in lilo for rc3-mm2, it works.
> >
> > dmesg diff:
> > -Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=801 psmouse.proto=exps 3
> > +Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 ro root=801
> >
> > Somebody understands this ? Are there gremlins in my box ?
>
> A week or so ago I had a problem and couldnt see which changeset
> caused it. After a binary search it turned out to be the changeset
> that changed the (length of the) kernel version string.
> A wild pointer was harmless at first, but after shifting everything
> by a few bytes it caused crashes.
>
> Probably (hopefully) your problem is something entirely different,
> but it is not impossible that kernel behaviour depends on kernel name.
Well, partially solved...
I had USB legacy emulation active in the BIOS. Disabling it makes
everything work as it should.
I had alwasy thought that Linux ignored the BIOS completely, as an
ancient remain of cr*p.
Thanks everyoune.
--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es> \ Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586
Linux 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #1