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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: i8042 problem
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:47:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030812204714.GC23011@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030728120743.A15048@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:07:43PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > Date: 28 Jul 2003 12:25:05 +0100
> 
> > > > So the culprit is the failing of atkbd_probe().
> > > > It does a ATKBD_CMD_GETID, but gets no answer, then a
> > > > ATKBD_CMD_SETLEDS, and that command fails.
> > > 
> > > I see the light now. Somehow I imagined that atkbd code does not call
> > > the ->open for the port. Now it all falls into place. Everything works
> > > with a bigger timeout.
> > 
> > Unfortunately with this change several people still report failures
> 
> I'm afraid it is to be expected. They have to go through the
> motions of setting DEBUG. Unfortunately, it's not all that
> simple. Messages scroll up and since the keyboard is dead,
> they cannot be returned with Shift-PgUp. I used a serial console.
> I think it's more effort most people are prepared to spend.

An USB keyboard can be very helpful in that case. Or a remote login.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-26  6:11 i8042 problem Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-26  9:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-27  1:41   ` Chris Heath
2003-07-27  6:06     ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-27 10:47       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28  1:55         ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-28 11:25           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:59             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28 14:01               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 14:54                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28 15:43                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 15:51                     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 18:29                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-12 20:46                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 13:44                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 16:07             ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-08-12 20:47               ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-08-12 20:42         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-12 23:06           ` Andries Brouwer

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