Messages in this thread |  | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | dead keyboard, once again | Date | Sat, 8 Jun 1996 20:13:35 +0200 (MET DST) |
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look what `fortune' told me today:
> Linux i486 1.99.14 > > ferkel login: root > Password: > Last login: Sat Jun 8 18:44:51 on tty1 > Linux 1.99.14. > > Kiss your keyboard goodbye! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
har har :)
but seriously, I now have at least a hint what is causing my locked-keyboard symptom.
usually I boot with loadlin, because it's not possibly to install lilo on my mixed system (IDE=m$/dos, SCSI=linux) without having a hang the next time I boot (lilo writes something like "Warning, bios drive 0x82(?) not accessible" when trying to install the mbr).
since I wanted to track down the keyboard-error, I removed all hardware from the system, even disconnected the IDE disk and installed lilo on the scsi- drive, making sda1 the boot-device (instead of hda1).
from now on, the keyboard did not hang anymore.
piece after piece, I put the hardware back, reconnected the IDE-drive, but without telling the BIOS the hdparams, so the system would *still* boot from the scsi-drive. under linux, hda of course now was accessible. still no hangs!
next step: tell BIOS that hda1 = C: and booting from a m$/dos floppy with nothing but command.com on it, switching to C:\LOADLIN and booting the system: no keyboard hangs.
I'm suspecting that some driver in config.sys changes some hardware in a way and leaves it that changed way, which then confuses linux at runtime. e.g., I am using irq=7 for my SB16 card under m$/dos, but irq=10 for that card under linux. this could be a possible error source, if linux assumes "clean" hardware-state at boot-time. I have not yet looked at which .sys driver is causing this problem.
anyway, why does it work under 1.99.9 ? I have read the patches-pre2.0.10, but, hmmm .... I saw nothing drastically changed (nothing that, to my understanding, can cause such hangs).
/herp
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