Re: i8042 problem

From: Andries Brouwer (aebr_at_win.tue.nl)
Date: 07/26/03

  • Next message: Marc-Christian Petersen: "Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches" 
    Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:36:19 +0200
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>

    On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:11:36AM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

    > On my old laptop, i8042 refuses to work with 2.6.0-test1-bk2.
    > After a reboot, keyboard is dead. Hooking external keyboard
    > revives the internal keyboard. Here's the dmesg with DEBUG:
    >
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 60 -> i8042 (command) [50]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 44 -> i8042 (parameter) [50]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fa <- i8042 (interrupt, kbd, 1) [51]
    > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
    > <------------- This is it, keyboard is dead.

    Writing 44 to the command byte disables IRQ1.
    (Otherwise the only remarkable part was that no reaction came to
    f2 - identify keyboard.)

    > V---- Trying to hook external keyboard now
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f0 -> i8042 (kbd-data) [109846]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fa <- i8042 (interrupt, kbd, 1) [109852]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 00 -> i8042 (kbd-data) [109873]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fa <- i8042 (interrupt, kbd, 1) [109879]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 41 <- i8042 (interrupt, kbd, 1) [109900]
    > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 41 <- i8042 (interrupt, kbd, 1) [109921]
    > atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 0, scancode 0x2, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
    > input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
    > <----- Now we are talking!

    Funny. Looks like the "read scancode set" command got the scancode set
    twice, and the second time was seen as unknown key.

    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

  • Next message: Marc-Christian Petersen: "Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: vi horizontal split screen
      ... Command line recall and edit, which I had on DOS, was worth the price of admission by itself. ... The script language was designed to look like C for the benefit of C programmers working on *nix, but you still needed to know Bourne syntax, because all the scripts that controlled Unix itself were in the Bourne shell language. ... Emacs is not it. ... The default Emacs keystrokes have the same basic characteristic as the default vi keystrokes and the default WordStar command set: they are keyboard independent. ...
      (comp.editors)
    • Re: command line vs gui
      ... > command lines over GUI, ... Windows based Oracle. ... For me, it breaks down into not gui vs cli, but mouse vs keyboard. ... cli command is a series of carefully constructed txt options. ...
      (comp.os.linux.misc)
    • Re: iTunes questions
      ... Its time Apple woke up. ... keyboard shortcuts are conspicuously absent. ... they also gave the common actions keyboard equivalents, which is much, ... Every commonly used command or option should have a kb shortcut. ...
      (comp.sys.mac.apps)
    • Re: using KEBOARD into a EditBox with InputMask
      ... The selStart property is relative to 0; ... keyboard command, these command execute before the txtentry gets focus, ... thus nothing has changed yet with the txtentry properties. ... gets focus, and consumes the keyboard command, to capture the changes, put ...
      (microsoft.public.fox.programmer.exchange)
    • Re: I miss my Windows keyboard access!!!!! help!!
      ... responsible programmers even underlined the shortcuts for you. ... didn't have arrow keys, or page-up/page-down. ... items were reachable by keyboard action, and not always the same keyboard ... Command key, option key, control key, shift command, shift option, ...
      (comp.sys.mac.system)