Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

From: Frank Peters
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 14:24:56 EST


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:45:32 +0200
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > During a failed boot, when the keyboard was unresponsive, I managed
> > to capture a kernel log of this failure. Here are the lines that caught
> > my attention:
> >
> > kernel: i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042.
> > kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
> > kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > kernel: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> > kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > kernel: ttyS2 at I/O 0xb800 (irq = 16) is a 16550A
> >
>
> Please try 'usb-handoff' on the kernel command line. This looks like an
> usual symptom on machines that need it.
>
>
>

It works! :-)))

Booting linux-2.6.13-rc4 with the "usb-handoff" option gives me
a working keyboard everytime now.

Thank you very much for your interest in this problem.

Frank Peters

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