[PlanetCCRMA] More on SMP weirdness

[Pablo Silva]

Hi Fernando...

Thanks for your answer.  I've been trying a couple of things with my 
machine...

(Both mouse and keyboard are plugged in normally.)

I do see weird messages in the messages file in /var/log/

When the machine boots with an smp kernel, I seem to have a situation 
where the mouse controller seems not to be able to initialize the PS/2 
port: (I copy the corresponding part, but

> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [PS2K] 
> at I/O 0x60, 0x64, irq 1
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at 
> irq 12
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: Failed to disable AUX port, but 
> continuing anyway... Is this a SiS?
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: If AUX port is really absent please 
> use the 'i8042.noaux' option.
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 
> 12
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 
> 1
> Feb  3 16:23:42 cuicatl kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 
> 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

.....(cut).... Later:

> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB 
> HID core driver
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all 
> mice
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on 
> isa0060/serio0
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on 
> isa0060/serio0
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on 
> isa0060/serio0
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, 
> MD_SB_DISKS=27
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
> Feb  3 16:23:43 cuicatl kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 
> buckets, 128Kbytes

Nothing like this shows up in the corresponding messages file when I 
boot non-smp. :

> Feb  3 16:42:58 cuicatl kernel: ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at 
> irq 12
> Feb  3 16:42:58 cuicatl kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 
> 12
> Feb  3 16:42:58 cuicatl kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 
> 1
> Feb  3 16:42:58 cuicatl kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 
> 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

So I would assume this has something to do either with things that 
happen earlier in the startup sequence, which would block the 
initialization of the port, or with the "serio" 
routine/deamon/whatever-it-is

Any ideas on how to unblock this?

Thanks

Pablo

On 03/02/2005, at 14:07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>> If I boot the machine on a non-smp kernel, none of these problems 
>> occur
>> at all.
>
> That _is_ strange. Just in case, are you sure you have plugged them in
> the right places (and not mouse in the keyboard port, for example)?
>
>> I'm conscious that FC3 is still very much immature, but problems at
>> this level do seem a bit out of normal!
>
> I have not seen it myself. Maybe would be worth asking in the
> fedora-users mailing list. I don't think rebuilding the kernel would
> help, you would just get the same problem again. Do you see anything 
> out
> of the ordinary in the /var/log/messages message log when you boot smp?
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>