[Bug 399650] Re: keyboard/trackpad hang on boot

[Jim]

I understand that. My priority was to get my partners PC working 
reliably and the band-aid did that. It looks like a timing issue during 
startup to me. 15-20 years ago I would have dived into source code to 
try and sort the problem myself but I have other priorities now.

I agree with your comment on the raft of drivers. I used to recompile 
kernels, drivers etc to minimise overheads and optimise performance. Now 
with huge amounts of memory and disk I worry less about it. Backward 
compatibility has a lot to answer for too.

One occaissional advantage of have an installation load lots of 
unnecessary stuff is that you can move a hard drive between different 
systems and have it boot. It has helped me with disaster recovery once 
or twice.

A clean server install shouldn't have any un-necessary stuff though.

Being exclusively a laptop user these days I find Network Manager great 
as I move between LAN/WLAN/3G environments - it just works for the most 
part except when there are driver conflicts as happens from time to 
time. In a permanent LAN environment it would be a useless overhead.

Cheers
Jim

On 06/08/10 10:18, rcbpage wrote:
>   Regards Jim,
>
> My problem with that is, is that it's putting a band-aid on the problem,
> not fixing the source of it.
> And my boxen is not a laptop, it's a higher end desktop.
> It has been a complaint for sometime now, that the various flavors of
> Ubuntu, all seem to assume
> everyone is running it on a laptop and loads up a raft of drivers that
> are never used by a desktop
> system or server.
> Speaking for myself one of the first things I unload after an install
> are the wireless, disk and battery management
> garbage, and Network Manager, and disable the Bluetooth stuff.
>
> Craig
>
>
> On 08/05/2010 02:08 PM, Jim wrote:
>    
>> A year or so ago I had the same or very similar symptoms.
>>
>>   From memory I resolved it by setting the boot parameter i8042.reset(=true?)
>> That resets the i8042 keyboard controller subsystem at boot time.
>>
>> You can set it in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
>>
>> I can't check further specifics now as the laptop suffered a terminal
>> experience under the wheels of a car.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jim
>>
>> On 06/08/10 04:43, Fabio Marconi wrote:
>>      
>>> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
>>> Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
>>> Tanks in advance.
>>>
>>> ** Changed in: ubuntu
>>>          Status: New =>   Incomplete
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>

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keyboard/trackpad hang on boot
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