Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:10:17 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: PS2 mouse/kbd problems (gremlins?) |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:30:22PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 2004.10.06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:45 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote: > >> Hi all... > >> > >> I got time to track my ps2 problems. I run 2.6.9-rc2-mm[123] (that was > >> enough). > >> > >> Results: > >> - mm1: mouse and kbd work ok, both in console and X > >> - mm2: mouse works, no kbd. I had to unplug/plug the keyboard to get it > >> responding. > >> - mm3: kbd ok, but ps2 mouse is sluggish. > >> > >> In latest -rc3-mm2, behavior is like mm3 and above. > >> > > > >What about vanilla -rc3 and vanilla -rc3 with bk-input patch applied (if > >you > >have some time of course). Do they exibit the same symptoms as -mm tree? > > > > Both rc3 and rc3-bk.input work. Even rc3-mm2 works, depending on how I boot > ;). > This is getting really strange....look: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2004.10.05 14:16 vmlinuz -> > vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 > > lilo.conf: > default="linux" > append="psmouse.proto=exps" > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="linux" > ... > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 > label="linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2" > > If I boot with the default entry, mouse does not work. If I boot with > the specific entry in lilo for rc3-mm2, it works. > > dmesg diff: > -Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=801 psmouse.proto=exps 3 > +Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.6.9-rc3-mm2 ro root=801 > > Somebody understands this ? Are there gremlins in my box ?
A week or so ago I had a problem and couldnt see which changeset caused it. After a binary search it turned out to be the changeset that changed the (length of the) kernel version string. A wild pointer was harmless at first, but after shifting everything by a few bytes it caused crashes.
Probably (hopefully) your problem is something entirely different, but it is not impossible that kernel behaviour depends on kernel name. - 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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