Re: USB Keyboard

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
>> I have multiple AMD 64-bit servers in several configurations, with
>> several different motherboards, which fail to recognize a USB keyboard
>> when booted from a "stock" Linux kernel. They only work with a RedHat
>> kernel! I have removed all but one CPU from one in an attempt to find
>> the problem.
> [...]
>> linux-2.6.8 linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6.10 linux-2.6.11
>> linux-2.6.11.9 linux-2.6.12 linux-2.6.12.5 linux-2.6.13
>> linux-2.6.13.4 linux-2.6.15.4 linux-2.6.16.24 linux-2.6.16.4
>> linux-2.6.19
>
> Could you please turn on USB debugging (and also maybe HID debugging, but
> usb debug should be more interesting now) and send us the logs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Jiri Kosina

Ouch!  I can't do anything by copy from a screen! There is no way to
get `dmesg` without the keyboard! That's why I sent a request to
linux-kernel, hoping that the problem would sound familiar. All I
can do is boot the system (off a CD-ROM) and then pull the plug
when the keyboad doesn't work!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.71 BogoMips).
New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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