Re: 2.6.{28,30} Keyboard not working on oldish machine

Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2009-07-04T00:24:19Z

* Jiri Kosina (jkosina@suse.cz) wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Apologies for the delay; attached is the dmesg from the Debian 2.6.18
> > in which keyboard works as previously described.
>
> So the main difference is here:
>
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 20 -> i8042 (command) [3]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 65 <- i8042 (return) [3]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 60 -> i8042 (command) [3]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 74 -> i8042 (parameter) [3]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: Interrupt 1, without any data [3]
>
> compared to
>
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 20 -> i8042 (command) [1]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 65 <- i8042 (return) [1]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 60 -> i8042 (command) [2]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 74 -> i8042 (parameter) [2]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d3 -> i8042 (command) [2]
>
> So it looks like it is really affected by the polling timer removal/early
> IRQ registration.

While that is different it does carry on; and, if I'm reading it
right, the last thing it does in my 2.6.30 logs is enable the keyboard
and then prod the mouse:

[ 2.814817] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f4 -> i8042 (kbd-data) [13]
[ 2.817615] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fa <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [14]
[ 2.823470] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[ 2.827716] evbug.c: Connected device: input1 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard at isa0060/serio0/input0)
[ 2.828278] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [17]
[ 2.828427] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f2 -> i8042 (parameter) [17]

The 'ack' to the f4 presumably means the keyboard is reasonably happy?

That 'd4, f2' write-to-mouse times out on the 2.6.18 version, but no other 8042 debug
comes out on the 2.6.30. Here's the matching 2.6.18:

drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [7]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f2 -> i8042 (parameter) [7]
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 (interrupt, AUX, 0, timeout) [19]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [19]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: ed -> i8042 (parameter) [19]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 (interrupt, AUX, 0, timeout) [31]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 60 -> i8042 (command) [31]
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 44 -> i8042 (parameter) [31]

(Although it's a bit difficult to compare since it seems 2.6.18 tends to do
mouse first and only keyboard after the mouse times out).

Dave
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