From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754093AbZFWSGr (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753632AbZFWSGj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:39 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:44065 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753558AbZFWSGj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=MuqQrRdARyoEu+nSm+VrgSqNt15M1m1GF9IsRn4lCAOmku4LPbEN+Dd8ECoyNLmyq8 KVzXEmd5qXzne3/pbcuDxE1lOCt4/8knTu5q3eyVVhhtJURLPeIFUUQCqquuRH0XXF5k VUAgTE57V3UVWHD/z9kYU1FSmYf/D2KK/oLCo= From: Dmitry Torokhov To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Subject: Re: 2.6.{28,30} Keyboard not working on oldish machine Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:06:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.30-rc6; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Jiri Kosina , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org References: <20090613230842.GA18347@gallifrey> <20090623185814.GB24108@gallifrey> In-Reply-To: <20090623185814.GB24108@gallifrey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906231106.37460.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 23 June 2009 11:58:15 Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Jiri Kosina (jkosina@suse.cz) wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > Yes, with i8042.noaux it works; dmesg snippet included below. > > > > And in reply to hpa, it doesn't have a mouse port. > > > > > > I saw you also asked for a dmidecode -t system dmidecode says the > > > machine has 'No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point'. > > > > Hmm, that means that there is no easy way to identify your particular > > machine (which apparently has somewhat broken AUX i8042 port) in run-time > > for quirk to be applied. I am afraid you'll need to live with specifying > > the command-line kernel parameter on this machine. > > Yep; I'm OK with the i8042.noaux from my point of view, but it's a > bit worrying that this used to work fine. There's obviously been > a change somewhere since 2.6.18 (and as I remember from the dmesg > the keyboard and aux ports are being initialised in different orders). > (Actually I say obviously since 2.6.18 - but the 2.6.18 I tried > I think I only used the debian version - I should go back and > see if I can do a vanilla one), but this box has been running > Linux since the time it was originally bought with loads of distros > and clean kernels years ago. > > While this machine is old, the motherboard was a pretty common one > at the time. > Any chance I could get dmesg with i8042.debug with 2.6.18? There was quite a large change back then when we got rid of the polling timer in i8042. -- Dmitry