From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271110AbTHLUr0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:47:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271112AbTHLUrZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:47:25 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:46740 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271110AbTHLUrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:47:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:47:14 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Pete Zaitcev Cc: Alan Cox , Andries Brouwer , Chris Heath , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: i8042 problem Message-ID: <20030812204714.GC23011@ucw.cz> References: <20030726093619.GA973@win.tue.nl> <20030726212513.A0BD.CHRIS@heathens.co.nz> <20030727020621.A11637@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20030727104726.GA1313@win.tue.nl> <20030727215545.A21295@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1059391505.15440.12.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030728120743.A15048@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030728120743.A15048@devserv.devel.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:07:43PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > From: Alan Cox > > 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