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Mark Knecht wrote: >On 10/10/05, Robert Crocombe <rwcrocombe@raytheon.com> 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/ | ||||||||||
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