Re: keyboard and USB problems (Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm2)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 13:47:22 EST


Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:01:52PM +0100, Rudo Thomas wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to type anything on the keyboard in 2.6.2-rc1-mm2. It
> > works fine in -rc1-mm1. There are a few differences in dmesg output of mm2
> > compared to mm1.
> >
> > BogoMIPS is figured out to be 8.19 (this was already reported by another user),
>
> ... this the root cause of the following problems.
>
> > and i8042.c complaints with this:
> > i8042.c: Can't write CTR while closing AUX.
>
> ... bogomips is used in udelay() and that's used for waiting. If
> bogomips is measured lower than real, the wait takes shorter and the
> hardware doesn't do what it should in that short time.
>
> Try disabling ACPI for a start ...

Disabling CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER should fix it up too.

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