On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:51, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > unsure if this is the appropriate forum fo this question, please direct > me to another list if need be. > > a co-worker with an SMP system tried installing gentoo 1.4 a couple of > days ago; the experience was mostly fine except that whenever he tried > to boot an SMP kernel, his keyboard would no longer work (?) > > any pointers to kernel config options that might work around this issue > would be greatly appreciated, i am pretty sure it is a quirk in the > apollo chipset that is causing this =) > > the system is a p3 dual processor: > > motherboard: super p3tdde > chipset: via apollo pro 266T > dual 1.7 GHZ fcpga penium III's > fastrak100 tx/lp series IDE raid card running RAID1 on two hdd's > super-old MS natural split keyboard w/ ps2 interface > 1 GB RAM > > he installed gentoo on an additional non-raid IDE drive.
Silly, but, did he enable keyboard support in the kernel? -- Regards, -Lisa <Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>
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