Re: PS/2 Keyboard under 2.6.x

From: Mark Knecht (markknecht_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/11/05

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    Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:32:15 -0700
To: Robert Crocombe <rwcrocombe@raytheon.com>

    On 10/10/05, Robert Crocombe <rwcrocombe@raytheon.com> wrote:
    >
    > I have a Microway system based around the Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro
    > motherboard (4x Opterons). Under recent versions of 2.6:
    >
    > 2.6.12
    > 2.6.13
    > 2.6.13.3
    > 2.6.14-rc3-rt13
    >
    > the PS/2-connected keyboard becomes unresponsive once the kernel has
    > booted (I can use it to select which kernel to boot in grub -- actually,
    > it must be present to keep the system from whining and asking me to
    > press F1). A USB keyboard works (I am composing this message from the
    > affected machine). I attempted using earlier versions of the kernel,
    > but they do not compile before 2.6.12, and if you go far enough back
    > 'make menuconfig' doesn't work (I found and fixed the minor error that
    > was reported, but haven't attempted to build those kernels again).
    >

    I just reported this problem on the Gentoo bugzilla a couple of days
    ago. Here I have a P4HT machine. I had never turned on SMP to use the
    hyperthreading feature. When I turned it on I got exactly the problem
    you talk about. When I went back to UMP it worked fine.

    My keyboard is a wireless thing that had a little dongle to make it
    into ps2. I took that off and used the keyboard as a USB keyboard and
    it works fine under SMP.

    This was on 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for me.

    - Mark
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