Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751246AbVJKEP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:15:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751276AbVJKEP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:15:57 -0400 Received: from hulk.hostingexpert.com ([69.57.134.39]:11846 "EHLO hulk.hostingexpert.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbVJKEP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:15:57 -0400 Message-ID: <434B3C82.5080409@m1k.net> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:16:02 -0400 From: Michael Krufky Reply-To: mkrufky@m1k.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Knecht CC: Robert Crocombe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PS/2 Keyboard under 2.6.x References: <434B121A.3000705@raytheon.com> <5bdc1c8b0510101832v5f0c80d0ldec1ade4d4530292@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0510101832v5f0c80d0ldec1ade4d4530292@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hulk.hostingexpert.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - m1k.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1715 Lines: 47 Mark Knecht wrote: >On 10/10/05, Robert Crocombe wrote: > > >>I have a Microway system based around the Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro >>motherboard (4x Opterons). Under recent versions of 2.6: >> >>2.6.12 >>2.6.13 >>2.6.13.3 >>2.6.14-rc3-rt13 >> >>the PS/2-connected keyboard becomes unresponsive once the kernel has >>booted (I can use it to select which kernel to boot in grub -- actually, >>it must be present to keep the system from whining and asking me to >>press F1). A USB keyboard works (I am composing this message from the >>affected machine). I attempted using earlier versions of the kernel, >>but they do not compile before 2.6.12, and if you go far enough back >>'make menuconfig' doesn't work (I found and fixed the minor error that >>was reported, but haven't attempted to build those kernels again). >> >> >> > >I just reported this problem on the Gentoo bugzilla a couple of days >ago. Here I have a P4HT machine. I had never turned on SMP to use the >hyperthreading feature. When I turned it on I got exactly the problem >you talk about. When I went back to UMP it worked fine. > >My keyboard is a wireless thing that had a little dongle to make it >into ps2. I took that off and used the keyboard as a USB keyboard and >it works fine under SMP. > >This was on 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for me. > Have either of you tried the kernel boot option usb=handoff ? I had similar problems, and this fixed it for me. -- Michael Krufky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/