preview release: kernel 2.6.11-1 input device lockup

Fred Blaise chapeaurouge at madpenguin.org
Mon Mar 14 02:26:23 CST 2005


Thank you. The kernel param at boot fixed it, kind of :)  Locked up some
time after gdm login. I can't confirm this is for the same reason
though.
I also got fooled by the 2.6.11-1 pkg name... not the same as 2.6.11.1
kernel ;)

Cheers

fred

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:46 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Last Friday at 14:07, Fred Blaise wrote:
> 
> > When you boot on the 2.6.11-1 kernel, there's an error msg right at the
> > beginning saying (this is the obvious stuff that seems to differ from
> > the boot of 2.6.10-4):
> >
> > i8042.c Cant read CTR while initializing i8042.
> >
> > from then every input is locked up. Never had that pb before. It happens
> > everytime.
> 
> It seems to be fixed upstream in:
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.1
> 
> There's also a kernel boot parameter "i8042.noacpi" which should make
> it pass on older 2.6.11 kernels. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 
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