Re: PS/2 Keyboard under 2.6.x

[Michael Krufky]

Mark Knecht wrote:

> On 10/10/05, Robert Crocombe <rwcrocombe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > I have a Microway system based around the Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro
> > motherboard (4x Opterons).  Under recent versions of 2.6:
> >
> > 2.6.12
> > 2.6.13
> > 2.6.13.3
> > 2.6.14-rc3-rt13
> >
> > the PS/2-connected keyboard becomes unresponsive once the kernel has
> > booted (I can use it to select which kernel to boot in grub -- actually,
> > it must be present to keep the system from whining and asking me to
> > press F1).  A USB keyboard works (I am composing this message from the
> > affected machine).  I attempted using earlier versions of the kernel,
> > but they do not compile before 2.6.12, and if you go far enough back
> > 'make menuconfig' doesn't work (I found and fixed the minor error that
> > was reported, but haven't attempted to build those kernels again).
> >
> >    
>
> I just reported this problem on the Gentoo bugzilla a couple of days
> ago. Here I have a P4HT machine. I had never turned on SMP to use the
> hyperthreading feature. When I turned it on I got exactly the problem
> you talk about. When I went back to UMP it worked fine.
>
> My keyboard is a wireless thing that had a little dongle to make it
> into ps2. I took that off and used the keyboard as a USB keyboard and
> it works fine under SMP.
>
> This was on 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for me.
Have either of you tried the kernel boot option usb=handoff ?  I had 
similar problems, and this fixed it for me.

--
Michael Krufky

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