Messages in this thread | | | From | "ANOS" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.120 breaks PC keyboard | Date | Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:30:11 +0200 |
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Hi
I have also seen this with various versions. When I removed "vga=ask" in lilo.conf, it went away. Very reproducable on my Compaq Deskpro 6000 (PII).
/Anders
-----Original Message----- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 8:40 PM Subject: Re: 2.1.120 breaks PC keyboard
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980906182854.13663A-100000@mylly.firmament.fi>, >T Taneli Vahakangas <vahakang@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote: >>On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote: >>> I was unable to use a Focus 2001 101-key keyboard attached to a >>> motherboard with an ITE IT8680F-A controller (I had some trouble reading >>> the marking) and Intel VX chip set. After booting, pressing various keys >>> gave no response. The LED for number lock stayed lit, and when I >>> telnetted in to shut down the computer, I noticed that only one interrupt >>> from the keyboard had been recorded in /proc/cpuinfo. I have run other >>> kernels, including pre-2.1.120-2, without this problem. E-mail me for >>> .config. >> >>Do you get "Keyboard Timeout"s in the boot process? I get two of them and >>good-bye keyboard. This just doesn't happen on every boot (fortunately). >>It started with 2.1.120-pre2, I think. > >Could you who see this problem try different values for the value of >KBD_INIT_TIMEOUT in pc_keyb.h? That's really the only thing that changed >as far as I can tell: the new code does not rely on the timer interrupt >any more, and maybe the timeout is too short.. > >The other thing that changed is when the PS/2 mouse driver tells the >system that it is accepting mouse interrupts, but that shouldn't make >any difference. > >So I'd like people who see this try: > - increase the timeouts in pc_keyb.h. It may just be that. > - if that doesn't work, revert the changes in 2.1.120 to pc_keyb.[ch] > - if that doesn't work, rever the changes in 2.1.120 to psaux.c > >and please tell me what happens. The PS/2 mouse changes are definitely >needed on some machines, but maybe they need to be done differently (the >problem is that both the PS/2 mouse and the keyboard really use the same >controller, and I suspect the drivers should be integrated more than >they are now to fix the basic problem). > >Oh, and please tell me whether you have "kbd-reset" in your kernel >command line or not.. > > Thanks, > Linus > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html
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