From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 08:47:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 08:47:15 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([212.71.160.16]:53515 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 08:47:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:47:04 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: "J.P. Morris" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.x keyboard oddities Message-ID: <20020505124704.GC4990@louise.pinerecords.com> In-Reply-To: <20020504234908.39e71442.jpm@it-he.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: Linux/sparc 2.2.21-rc3-ext3-0.0.7a SMP (up 13 days, 2:27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [J.P. Morris ] > The other day I finally got a 2.5 kernel (2.5.13) to compile and boot. > One of the major stumbling (crashing) blocks seems to be DEVFS, so I > simply disabled it and booted the kernel. > > The system appears to have come up completely now, except for the > keyboard which is totally frozen throughout the entire boot process. > > I don't have another PC but I might try and get my Psion Series 5 > to act as a VT100 terminal and go in through serial. > > The keyboard is a bog-standard AT 102 keyboard, attached through a > AT/PS2 converter to an ABIT KT133 ATX motherboard.. no USB stuff. > Keyboard is turned on in the input devices option in kernel config. > But it's utterly dead: even ALT-SYSRQ-B. Is this normal? 1) Try booting with 'acpi=off'. It's broken for a number of systems (does precisely what you've described) and no official update is available as of yet. Alternatively, you can try to apply the most recent ACPI patch from [1]. 2) Make sure you've enabled core input support and userland keyboard interface (CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV). T. [1] http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/