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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ronald Moesbergen <r.moesbergen@hccnet.nl>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.9-rc3, i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:13:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097079186.29255.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4161A2C1.8000901@hccnet.nl>

On Llu, 2004-10-04 at 20:21, Ronald Moesbergen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since 2.6.9-rc3 (I tested rc3-bk3 also) on 3 out of 10 boots my PS/2 
> keyboard is dead and 'i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042' 
> shows up in my logfile. Google found this:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109463125415432&w=2
> 
> which suggests to add i8042.noacpi=1 to my boot parameters, but 
> unfortunately that doesn't help, the kernel doesn't even recognize this 
> option. Reverting back to 2.6.9-rc2 fixes it. The machine is a P4 3Ghz 
> HT, E7205 chipset, ASUS P4P8X board.

For E7xxx systems you need to disable USB legacy support in the BIOS
because SMM only works on the boot processor. There is a patch to
automate it in 2.6.8.1-ac you can also borrow


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 19:21 PROBLEM: 2.6.9-rc3, i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042 Ronald Moesbergen
2004-10-06 16:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-16 11:37   ` Håkan Lindqvist
2004-10-19 15:43   ` Jan Harkes

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