Re: Keyboard lockup on 5.0.1 on A1200 during install

[Chris Edwards <cme%ihug.co.nz@localhost>]

John Klos wrote:
 > Could you itemize the hardware you have? I have an A1200, too, with a
> Blizzard 1260 and phase5 SCSI, but I have neither run an installation
> kernel for ages, nor have I had this problem.

My hardware is:
Commodore Amiga 1200 rev 1D
Blizzard 1260, 68060 @ 50 MHz
SCSI Kit IV (no drives or cables currently attached), 64 MB RAM (1 SIMM)
storage: alternating between a 2 GB CompactFlash card and a 1 GB 3.5 Maxtor IDE 
drive
PSU is a 50 W switchmode supply, good for 5 A @ 5 V

I've been trying out a few recent kernels, and GENERIC 4.0 and 4.0.1 do not 
appear to exhibit the problem, but GENERIC 5.0 and 5.0.1 do, as does Frank's 
amiga_timecounter_fix 5.0.1 test kernel.  The keyboard weirdness under 5.x 
occurs regardless of whether booting off the CompactFlash or the IDE HDD.  I'm 
quite prepared to accept it's just my hardware, but it works fine under 
AmigaDOS and seemingly all NetBSD but 5.x... :)

BTW, I couldn't easily compare interrupt rate figures across all these kernel 
versions as the systat binary only seems to work with the kernel it was 
compiled for.


> On the other hand, I use an external keyboard (I physically lifted the
> soldered pins and soldered wires to an external 5 pin connector; my
> machine is in a 1U rackmount case), so it could possibly be a problem
> with the internal keyboard controller.

That sounds great - I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes custom rack gear. 
:)  I nearly bought an A2000 motherboard recently and would probably have put 
it in a rack enclosure.


> Another thing to try is to switch to wscons and see if the wskbd0 device
> behaves differently. Let me know if you need a custom kernel built.

I was wondering what the story was with wscons on Amiga - I'll try that out 
tomorrow.  I'll also try moving the 1260 to the other A1200 and see if that 
machine shows the same problem.

Thanks!
Chris