[PlanetCCRMA] [Fwd: Re: no keyboard with 2.6.10 kernels]

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando,
   Thanks. I'm the one that had the problem. The machine is an Intel
P4HT machine that fails with that message using the SMP kernel only.

   I'll give this a try later this evening or tomorrow morning.

Cheers,
Mark


On 16 Feb 2005 17:39:22 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Just saw this on the fedora-devel list... I remember someone having
> problems with the keyboard not being recognized, maybe this will help.
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> 
> From: David Chambers <davidc@ccmi.salk.edu>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@redhat.com>
> Cc: ghenriks@rogers.com
> Subject: Re: no keyboard with 2.6.10 kernels
> Date: 16 Feb 2005 16:54:56 -0800
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:35:42 -0500
> Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > Everything works fine with kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> >
> > However all of the 2.6.10 kernels I have tried from devel have given
> > the "i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042" error during
> > the boot process and the keyboard doesn't work.
> >
> > Booting with acpi=off solves the problem but given that this is a
> > laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150) this seems less than ideal.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> Try booting with "usb-handoff" - this works for me on a dual xeon with
> i7505 chipset and smp kernels: it's worth a go on the laptop.
> 
> - David
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