2.6.0-test4 kernel hangs on loading mouse driver

2.6.0-test4 kernel hangs on loading mouse driver

[Phil Stewart]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem booting the test4 kernel, which has developed since
patching up from a functional test2 tree (I haven't compiled a test3
kernel on my system, having patched to test3 and then again to test4). The
problem seems to lie with the mouse, which is a USB HID mouse. The kernel
gets as far as loading the hid core at boot time, giving these messages:

drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0: USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

The system then hangs.

I'm using an original Athlon (old skool Slot A fragrance) with a VIA
chipset (VT8371 [KX133] north bridge, VT82C686 south bridge), and a
bog-standard USB HID mouse and PS/2 keyboard. Relevant kernel
configuration options are:

CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=m

CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y

Thanks in advance for help with this issue :-)

--
Phil Stewart

PS - I'm not subscribed to the list, so I've CC'd myself into this mail -
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help identify and solve this problem. Thanks!

Re: 2.6.0-test4 kernel hangs on loading mouse driver

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:13, Phil Stewart wrote:
> I'm having a problem booting the test4 kernel, which has developed since
> patching up from a functional test2 tree (I haven't compiled a test3
> kernel on my system, having patched to test3 and then again to test4). The
> problem seems to lie with the mouse, which is a USB HID mouse. The kernel
> gets as far as loading the hid core at boot time, giving these messages:
> 
> drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0: USB HID core driver
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

It's a known problem related to ACPI changes in -test4. Please, see

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123

for further information. For me, enabling APIC and IOAPIC solve the
problem. If you can't enable APIC and IOAPIC, please boot using
"pci=noacpi".