Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:16:28 +0000 |
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On Gwe, 2005-12-02 at 10:37 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > I have a system with a super-micro P8SCI motherboard. > > The default FC2 kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp) works fine, but > when I try to boot a 2.6.13.2 kernel, I see this error: > > i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042 > > If I hit the keyboard early in the boot, the system will just reboot. > > If I wait a bit, then it will boot to a prompt, but no keyboard input > is accepted.
Fedora Core has a patch (which was rejected upstream) which automatically fixes up problems with some BIOS USB emulation. On the base kernel you need to specify "usb-handoff" on the command line at boot. Another approach is to turn USB keyboard off in the BIOS.
Alan
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