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From: Krishnakumar B <kitty@cs.wustl.edu>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] AT Keyboard not present?
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 19:55:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805141@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805137@msgid-missing>

On Friday, 7 September 2001, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
> The only way to supress the message is to hack it out of the kernel.
> 
> The message comes from the fact the BIOS does legacy device emulation
> for USB keyboards and mice. I think the ia64 BIOS supports this as well.
> However, the emulation isn't perfect and will cause messages like this.
> 
> When the HC driver loads, it turns this off and natively handles the USB
> keyboard.
> 
> The real fix is to use USB drivers as early as possible.

How does one do this ? Can it be loaded via initrd ? I got some symbol
referencing errors while doing this. Then the uhci module was loaded as
usual when booting and this time there were no symbol referencing errors.

-kitty.

-- 
Krishnakumar B <kitty at cs dot wustl dot edu>
Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Washington University in St.Louis


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-07 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-07 17:49 [Linux-ia64] AT Keyboard not present? KOCHI Takayoshi
2001-09-07 19:05 ` Krishnakumar B
2001-09-07 19:36 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-09-07 19:55 ` Krishnakumar B [this message]
2001-09-07 20:02 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-09-07 20:09 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-09-07 20:12 ` KOCHI Takayoshi
2001-09-10  8:46 ` Martin Wilck
2001-09-10 21:43 ` Michael Madore
2001-09-10 22:10 ` Luck, Tony
2001-09-10 23:28 ` David Mosberger
2001-09-19 13:35 ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-19 21:49 ` David Mosberger
2001-09-19 22:27 ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-20 22:56 ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-21 15:44 ` David Mosberger

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