Re: PROBLEM: PS/2 keyboard and mouse not available/working/weird

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:03:49PM +0200, Take Vos wrote:

> I just upgraded to 2.5.44 from 2.5.43.
> 
> In 2.5.43 I had a small PS/2 mouse problem, as it din't see my wart but only 
> my scratch pad.

Known bug, still trying to find out why this happens. Any chance your
notebook has an IBM touchpad?

> In 2.5.44 both my PS/2 mice are not available, neither is my keyboard, 
> although after sufficient keystrokes, sometimes 5, sometimes more, the 
> keyboard is found, this is with Xfree. 

Interesting.

> Here is some relevant dmesg information.
> 	--snip--
> 	drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
> 	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
> 	drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner
> 	drivers/usb/image/scanner.c: 0.4.6:USB Scanner Driver
> 	register interface 'mouse' with class 'input
> 	mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> 	register interface 'joystick' with class 'input
> 	register interface 'event' with class 'input
> 	serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> 	serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> 	--snip--
> 	MTRR: setting reg 3
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0xf0, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0x4b, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0x43, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0xf0, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> 	atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0x43, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> 	input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> 

Very interesting.

> The last time I booted in 2.5.44 the keyboard was found after about 20 
> keystrokes but was useless as it produced weird escape sequences instead of 
> normal characters, this was without XFree (to check if it had something to do 
> with that).

Can you try with #define DEBUG in i8042.c?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs