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To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.x keyboard oddities
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On Sun, 5 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

| > [J.P. Morris <jpm@it-he.org>]
| >
| > 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).

Under "Input device support", you should also enable
CONFIG_SERIO (Serial I/O support).

-- 
~Randy