Re: 2.6.{28,30} Keyboard not working on oldish machine

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Ozan ?a??layan (ozan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I've got an old Pentium 90 machine that's been running a 2.4.x
> > kernel for a long time, seems to work OK on a 2.6.18 kernel
> > but doesn't seem to like anything newer.
> >
> > 2.6.30 no keyboard - but otherwise OK
> > 2.6.28 no keyboard - but otherwise OK
> > 2.6.26 reboots just after parsing ELF (maybe one more line)
> > 2.6.25 reboots almost immediately
> > 2.6.18 works OK
> >   
> 
> I'm having that weird problem on one of my computers too, I've reported
> it here but then I started to blame my mainboard and BIOS because I
> can't even boot into 2.6.25 which I was using months ago without an
> issue. My keyboard stops working just after the parport* modules are
> plugged. I really wonder what will happen if you blacklist lp, ppdev,
> parport and parport_pc modules.

Thanks for the suggestion Ozan; unfortunately removing all parallel stuff
didn't help.

Dave
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