From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:02:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] AT Keyboard not present? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 07, 2001, Krishnakumar B wrote: > 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. There should be no reason it can't be loaded via initrd. Any symbol problems would most likely be a problem with the distribution you are using. JE