Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-17T19:56:18Z

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:31:09PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2005 06:06 pm, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> > To qualify that more, the same setup used to compile 2.6.10, 2.6.10-mm2,
> > 2.6.10-mm3, 2.6.11-rc1 only gives me a working keyboard and mouse on the
> > 2.6.10 kernel.
>
> Hi,
>
> your scenario is a bit different, it looks like the controller does not want
> to response right from the beginning (while on Roey's box kernel detects both
> keyboard and mouse just fine):
>
> > ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [KBC] at I/O 0x60, 0x66, irq 1
> > ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at irq 12
> > i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042.
>
> Could you try booting with acpi=off and without PNP compiled in? And maybe
> with pci=routeirq

I expect the problem to be coming from the fact that the keyboard
controller uses ports 0x60 and 0x64, not 0x66 as ACPI tries to tell us
here.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR