Subject: Re: Uh-oh... Broken keyboard input.
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/03/1999 16:48:13
khym@bga.com said:
> but the GENERIC kernel said the "opmsprobe: command error" and the
> keyboard was unresponsive afterwards.

Normally, the "command error" is harmless. It means that
there is no mouse responding on the PS/2 mouse port.

> compile a kernel without the opms device, and
> get his machine up and running

That's interesting. The mouse probe really messes up
the keyboard controller. Hmm - does it have a mouse
port at all?
Can you identify the keyboard controller?
(might be separate, or part of the chipset)

best regards
Matthias