Make sure you have USB Legacy or a similar option off in your BIOS.
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Chris Clayton wrote:
> On Friday 02 Sep 2005 09:13, Chris Clayton wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I posted this to LKML and here a few days ago, but it doesn't seem to have
> > arrived on this list (maybe because I wasn't subscribed) and I've had no
> > responses from LKML. Anyway, here goes again...
> >
> > I've built and installed 2.6.13 from unpatched kernel.org sources and my USB
> > keyboard has started to behave very strangely when I boot my system.
> >
> > When I get to the login prompt, I only get to type a few key presses before
> > the
> > characters stop appearing on the screen. If I unplug the keyboard and plug
> > it in
> > again, the keyboard springs back into life and works perfectly until I
> > reboot,
> > when the problem always occurs again. This same keyboard worked fine with
> > 2.6.12.5 and still does.
>
> Don't know why I didn't think of this before, but I've upgraded my laptop to
> 2.6.13 and tried to boot that with this keyboard attached. The laptop locks up
> during the boot at a point where the /etc/hotplug/*.rc scripts are being run.
> With 2.6.12.5, the laptop boots fine. So it appears that 2.6.13 includes a
> change that breaks handling of this keyboard.
>
> The keyboard does work during the early part of the laptop boot because I can
> use the {up,down} arrow and enter keys at the lilo menu. Similarly, I can
> select
> options from the config.sys menu on my desktop (I've still got Win98SE on that
> and boot Linux through linld).
>
> Ideas anyone? Please.
>
> >
> > One perhaps important fact is that the keyboard also contains two USB
> > ports. It
> > is labelled Gateway and has a model ID of SK-9926. There are no devices
> > plugged
> > into the ports. I don't have another USB keyboard, so I can't check whether
> > the
> > presence of these ports is material. lsusb shows it as:
> >
> > Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0443:001c Gateway, Inc.
> > Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0443:001d Gateway, Inc.
> > <snip>
> >
> > I've rebuilt both kernels with USB debugging turned on and attach dmesg
> > dumps
> > taken immediately after login. I also attach the output from lsusb -v from
> > each
> > kernel. The dump from 2.6.12.5 ends immediately after a message about my
> > ieee1394 card, but the one from 2.6.13 continues with a USB error message
> > (line 276 of the dump). As far as I can see, this message is coming from
> > hub_irq()
> > of drivers/usb/core/hub.c (line 314), but I have no idea why.
> >
> > I'm more than happy to provide additional diagnostics and try any patches,
> > but
> > please cc me as I'm not subscribed to either list.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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