Re: Keyboard input ignored by 2.6.8

Aleksey Gorelov
2004-08-17T02:25:36Z

>Today I compiled 2.6.8 on my Debian sarge with gcc-3.4(and tested with
>gcc-3.3 also), and found 2.6.8 didn't accept my keyboard input. My
>keybaord is a usual PS/2 keyboard. I don't know what's going
>on. I cannot
>even login. Until today I have been using 2.6.7 without any
>problem. I
>attach my .config file as the attachment.
>
>Another (minor?) problem is when I compiled into usb stuff
>into the 2.6.8
>kernel, it freezed on booting. So I compiled usb stuff as
>modules and it
>was solved.

Try this patch
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg2
6993.html.
You need to specify "usb-handoff" as a kernel boot parameter.

Aleks.