Re: 2.1.120 breaks PC keyboard

T Taneli Vahakangas (vahakang@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:30:16 +0300 (EEST)


Hello!

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> I was unable to use a Focus 2001 101-key keyboard attached to a
> motherboard with an ITE IT8680F-A controller (I had some trouble reading
> the marking) and Intel VX chip set. After booting, pressing various keys
> gave no response. The LED for number lock stayed lit, and when I
> telnetted in to shut down the computer, I noticed that only one interrupt
> from the keyboard had been recorded in /proc/cpuinfo. I have run other
> kernels, including pre-2.1.120-2, without this problem. E-mail me for
> .config.

Do you get "Keyboard Timeout"s in the boot process? I get two of them and
good-bye keyboard. This just doesn't happen on every boot (fortunately).
It started with 2.1.120-pre2, I think.

> Trevor Johnson

Taneli <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi>

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