Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/ I have a keyboard problem from 2 things that seem related: mm1 dmesg: --- ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [PS2K] at I/O 0x60, 0x64, irq 1 i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042. Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled --- This makes my ps/2 keyboard not work on most boots. rc4 works ok and dmesg looks like this: --- serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled --- booting with pci=routeirq does not help usb aparently starts ok but then usb filesystem mounting is said to have failed on init services with this error in dmesg: --- drivers/usb/core/inode.c: usbfs: unrecognised mount option "mode=0620" or missing value drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed --- Plugging in a usb keyboard fails to do anything but I can get the usb keyboard to work by doing sysrq-R at that point. Con. Config below