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* Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2
@ 2005-12-02 18:37 Ben Greear
  2005-12-02 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
  2005-12-03 10:16 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Greear @ 2005-12-02 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I have a system with a super-micro P8SCI motherboard.

The default FC2 kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp) works fine, but
when I try to boot a 2.6.13.2 kernel, I see this error:

i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042

If I hit the keyboard early in the boot, the system will just reboot.

If I wait a bit, then it will boot to a prompt, but no keyboard input
is accepted.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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* Re: Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2
  2005-12-02 18:37 Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2 Ben Greear
@ 2005-12-02 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
  2005-12-02 22:11   ` Ben Greear
  2005-12-03 10:16 ` Alan Cox
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Torokhov @ 2005-12-02 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ben Greear; +Cc: linux-kernel, Andrew Morton

On Friday 02 December 2005 13:37, Ben Greear wrote:
> I have a system with a super-micro P8SCI motherboard.
> 
> The default FC2 kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp) works fine, but
> when I try to boot a 2.6.13.2 kernel, I see this error:
> 
> i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042
> 
> If I hit the keyboard early in the boot, the system will just reboot.
> 
> If I wait a bit, then it will boot to a prompt, but no keyboard input
> is accepted.
>

Does booting with "usb-handoff" boot option help any? 

-- 
Dmitry

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* Re: Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2
  2005-12-02 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
@ 2005-12-02 22:11   ` Ben Greear
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Greear @ 2005-12-02 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dmitry Torokhov; +Cc: linux-kernel, Andrew Morton

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 02 December 2005 13:37, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
>>I have a system with a super-micro P8SCI motherboard.
>>
>>The default FC2 kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp) works fine, but
>>when I try to boot a 2.6.13.2 kernel, I see this error:
>>
>>i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042
>>
>>If I hit the keyboard early in the boot, the system will just reboot.
>>
>>If I wait a bit, then it will boot to a prompt, but no keyboard input
>>is accepted.
>>
> 
> 
> Does booting with "usb-handoff" boot option help any? 

Not sure, but acpi=no works.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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* Re: Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2
  2005-12-02 18:37 Keyboard broken in 2.6.13.2 Ben Greear
  2005-12-02 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
@ 2005-12-03 10:16 ` Alan Cox
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2005-12-03 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ben Greear; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Gwe, 2005-12-02 at 10:37 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> I have a system with a super-micro P8SCI motherboard.
> 
> The default FC2 kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp) works fine, but
> when I try to boot a 2.6.13.2 kernel, I see this error:
> 
> i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042
> 
> If I hit the keyboard early in the boot, the system will just reboot.
> 
> If I wait a bit, then it will boot to a prompt, but no keyboard input
> is accepted.

Fedora Core has a patch (which was rejected upstream) which
automatically fixes up problems with some BIOS USB emulation. On the
base kernel you need to specify "usb-handoff" on the command line at
boot. Another approach is to turn USB keyboard off in the BIOS.

Alan


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