Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

Roey Katz
2005-02-12T17:51:58Z

Hello again Dmitry,

is there anything new about this issue? any fixes in the kernel?
If you want, I can continue doing the test/debug cycle as before.

Roey

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:42:51 -0500
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Roey Katz <roey@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Subject: Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup
>
> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:19 pm, Roey Katz wrote:
>> Dmitry,
>>
>> I have placed the results of the patched 2.6.9-rc2-bk2 kernel at the
>> following address:
>>
>> http://roey.freeshell.org/mystuff/kernel/*-20050112
>>
>> As expected, the system was unresponsive to keyboard input.
>
> And what if you do not compile PS/2 mouse support in? Is keyboard still
> dead?
>
>> Regarding your mouse question:
>> How do I test the mouse if they keyboard does not work (is there some
>> way to output the contents of /dev/psaux on startup? I'm not sure anymore
>> what file the mouse data appears in, too)
>>
>
> Install GPM and try moving your mouse after booting into runlevel 3 -
> if cursor moves mouse works.
>
> --
> Dmitry
>