I have also seen this with various versions. When I removed
"vga=ask" in lilo.conf, it went away. Very reproducable on my
Compaq Deskpro 6000 (PII).
/Anders
-----Original Message-----
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: 2.1.120 breaks PC keyboard
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980906182854.13663A-100000@mylly.firmament.fi>,
>T Taneli Vahakangas <vahakang@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>>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.
>
>Could you who see this problem try different values for the value of
>KBD_INIT_TIMEOUT in pc_keyb.h? That's really the only thing that changed
>as far as I can tell: the new code does not rely on the timer interrupt
>any more, and maybe the timeout is too short..
>
>The other thing that changed is when the PS/2 mouse driver tells the
>system that it is accepting mouse interrupts, but that shouldn't make
>any difference.
>
>So I'd like people who see this try:
> - increase the timeouts in pc_keyb.h. It may just be that.
> - if that doesn't work, revert the changes in 2.1.120 to pc_keyb.[ch]
> - if that doesn't work, rever the changes in 2.1.120 to psaux.c
>
>and please tell me what happens. The PS/2 mouse changes are definitely
>needed on some machines, but maybe they need to be done differently (the
>problem is that both the PS/2 mouse and the keyboard really use the same
>controller, and I suspect the drivers should be integrated more than
>they are now to fix the basic problem).
>
>Oh, and please tell me whether you have "kbd-reset" in your kernel
>command line or not..
>
> Thanks,
> Linus
>
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