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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:47:15 +0100
From: Christian <evil@g-house.de>
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CC: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Wiktor <victorjan@poczta.onet.pl>
Subject: Re: AT keyboard dead on 2.6
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:27:53PM +0100, Wiktor wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>my AT keyboard is dead on 2.6 series. Tests on other machines proves 
>>that this is my-hardware-specyfic problem (exacly the same binnary works 
>>on different mainboards with PS/2 keyboard and another AT keyboard). 2.4 
>>series works correctly. On 2.6 kernel seems to not hear what keyboard 
>>wants to tell him (eg. atkbd.reset preforms keyboard reset but reports 
>>error). Were any hadrware-handling changes made since 2.4? If so, how to 
>>undo them and make keyboard alive? I'm grateful for any help.
>  
> Please try i8042.noaux=1. You say you're using a serial mouse in your
> other e-mail, so the system may not have an AUX port yet the kernel
> thinks it does. This may cause the keyboard to stop responding.

fyi, there is a thread going on on linuxppc-dev regarding a similiar 
looking issue: 
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-January/018321.html
someone suggested booting with atkbd.reset=0, maybe the problems are 
somehow related? what exact kernel version are you using, Wiktor?

Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #20:

divide-by-zero error
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