Re: Current git: no keyboard when booting in verbose mode

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 12:44:42 EST


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:16:02AM -0400, Marc Dionne wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > [ adding some CCs ]
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Marc Dionne wrote:
> >
> >> I'm having issues with the current kernel in git, and wondering if this
> >> will ring a bell for anyone. The main symptom is that on most boots the
> >> keyboard is not detected - the system gets to the console login prompt
> >> but input is not recognized.  Sometimes (rarely) the keyboard will be ok
> >> at the console, but the keyboard and mouse are non functional once in X.
> >
> > Are both keyboard and mouse in question PS/2?
>
> No - keyboard is PS/2 but the mouse is USB.
>
> >> - On a failed boot with no keyboard, this line is missing from dmesg:
> >>     AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
> >
> > Could you please provide output from kernel booted with 'i8042.debug' from
> > the failing case?
>
> Attached are the dmesg output for a successful boot (with "quiet") and
> a failed one. I see that the i8042.debug output is quite different
> for the 2 cases.
>

Hmm, nothing obvious jumps at me... Just keyboard not responding at all
in the bad case. Any chance of bisecting? Maybe check before first input
merge and after?

--
Dmitry
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