Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:23:52 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Odd keyboard related crashes. |
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Hi!
> >>> Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> 10/05/01 05:01AM >>> > >I'm running 2.4.10, and the ps/2 keyboard came out of it's socket. > > >On plugging back in, all worked fine, until 10 seconds later there was a > >crash. (the keyboard worked after being plugged in) > >No oops, just a reboot. > >Thinking this must just have been a wierd coincidence, after the system > >came back up, I tried it again, and again it crashed a few seconds afterwards. > > >It doesn't seem to want to do this again though. > > When the keyboard is powered up (or plugged in), it goes through a self test, and reports the status back to the PC. Normally, a start up dialogue takes place between the PC and the keyboard at this point. > That's fine when you boot your PC, but if you unplug then re-plug the keyboard, the PC will be sent data it's really not expecting, and the BIOS will be very confused. > If you ever want to switch a keyboard between PCs, make sure you leave power supplied to it at all times.
BIOS is not alive enough at the time linux boots. This can't be BIOS issue. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - 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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