Re: Linux 2.5.10-dj1

Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-04-28T19:58:20Z

Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> writes:

> On Saturday 27 April 2002 15:51, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:51:21PM +0200, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> > > compiled fine, but after booting the system does not respond to the
> > > keyboard (I can see the message "serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq
> > > 1" om my screen)
> >
> > There are some reports that ACPI is having a bad interaction with the
> > keyboard controller. For now, disabling it may fix this.
>
> I have no ACPI or APM enabled (mobo does not know what it is)
>

I have an Compaq Armada M700, same problem. No ACPI configured,
symtoms vary a bit from kernel to kernel, but generally either
keyboard is totally dead, or it starts to get utterly confused about
caps lock and shift.

On 2.5.10-dj1 it works like this: keyboard led is responsive to
hitting caps lock, but when LED is off I get upper case letter typed,
and when LED is off I get lower case letters. However, the strange bit
is that lets say I type in my username and password so that they
appear in lowercase on the screen, I still don't get in. And just fir
having tried, typing with the caps lock LED off, thus getting upper
case text, doesn't help either.

Any pointer to where I go off to track this down?

ttfn,
A
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