Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:06:40 -0400 (EDT) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.120 breaks PC keyboard |
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T Taneli Vahakangas wrote:
> 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.
Yes, there was a pair of those in the syslog from the first time I booted 2.1.120.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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
The keyboard that had the problem is an AT-style one, and the system doesn't have a PS/2 mouse. I am using LILO, and tried booting with kbd-reset (which I hadn't known about before). The plain 2.1.120 kernel then worked fine for me. I also compiled a new kernel with the patch posted by Linus. It worked fine either with or without kbd-reset. There have been no more "Keyboard timeout" messages. I haven't tried the changes suggested above, but can if they are still pertinent.
It doesn't seem to me that the keyboard just suddenly flaked out, because it was working fine immediately before and after that first time I booted 2.1.120, and has never had problems except during those few minutes.
Here's the lilo.conf. It never had "vga = ask".
# LILO configuration created by QuickInst 20 Mon Aug 31 16:53:36 PDT 1998
boot = /dev/hda compact delay = 300 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly vga = normal # force sane state root = current # use "current" root # append = "kbd-reset" # for 2.1.120 kernel image = /boot/zImage-2.1.120 # plain label = Linux image = /boot/zImage-2.1.120-keyboard # with patch from Linus label = 120k other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = DOS __ Trevor Johnson
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