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SubjectRe: Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2
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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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