Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 10:21:47 EST



* Shane Shrybman <shrybman@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Twice while using -L2 my IBM PS2 keyboard has become completely
> non-responsive. USB mouse and everything else seems to be fine, but no
> LEDs or anything from the keyboard.
>
> On both occasions the last key I hit on the keyboard was numlock and the
> numlock did not come on and I had to reboot after that.
>
> UP, x86, gcc 2.95, scsi + ide, bttv
>
> Resolved in M5?

M5 does that differently, yes - so could you try it? If you still get
problems, does this fix it:

echo 0 > /proc/irq/1/*/threaded

(this turns the IRQ 1 thread off.)

Ingo
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