Re: odd PS/2 keyboard fail

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello.  I'm glad to hear the keyboard is now working.  In answer to
your question about whether anyone cares about the problem, the rule of
thumb I follow is that if the problem persists up to the current release,
i.e. 5.x, then it's still a relevant issue and  it's worth solving and
reporting.  As of today, 4.x is still a supported release, so problems with
it should also be worth solving.
        I don't know if you can, but if it's possible to boot a 5.x kernel on
the machine and see if the problem persists up to that release, that might
be useful.  If it does, then it means the systemic issue isn't resolved,
and debugging it further is actually very useful.
Just my 2 cents.
-thanks
-Brian
On Apr 27,  3:04am, der Mouse wrote:
} Subject: Re: odd PS/2 keyboard fail
} Update on that PS/2 keyboard fail....
} 
} Brian Buhrow's guess appears right, at least in an operational sense.
} I told the BIOS to disable USB completely and now the PS/2 keyboard
} works once the kernel's booted.  (I haven't tried doing anything with
} mice.  All my tests were done with no mouse connected; the 4.0.1
} kernels had the "pms* at pckbc?" line in the kernel, while the 1.4T
} kernels did not - this might be significant for all I know.  Until I
} started looking at the PRs mentioned in this thread I had no idea the
} pms driver might be relevant.)
} 
} Since dmesg output is relatively lengthy and I have five of them, I'm
} putting them up for FTP instead.  The files are in
} ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/misc/ps2-kbd-fail/, with names which
} very briefly describe the situation in which each one was captured;
} I've added a few lines to the top of each one describing its scenario
} in more detail.
} 
} I can build kernels and test-boot them for various scenarios, if people
} think it might help.
} 
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