Bug#357187: not recognize keyboard mouse

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 01:44, Geert Stappers wrote:
>
> When you see the Debian swirl and the 'boot:' prompt,
> then hit a function key, e.g. F1, and read the instructions.
> It says something like 'noapci' 'no_thingy',
> boot with that option and please report your milage.

I booted as ordered

install noapic nolapic

as per F6.

I also tried

install noapci noapic nolapic

(notice you talk about noapci while F6 in installer talks about noapic nolapic 
I tried all variations :)

I even tried no_thingy just for fun.

No change - no keyboard activity! 

I should mention that this machine has run installers for woody, and sarge 
without problem in the past. This is no apic or lapic or noapci problem.
It is only having trouble with the 2.6.15 kernel! 

I have done 2 sarge installs on the system in the last week. 
All is ok until I install 2.6.15 kernel either via apt-get 
or via dpkg of self compiled the debian way.  2.6.8 kernel works

( aside: I bet it is udev (i hate udev - it has been messing me up for 6 
months)).

Thanks for being there!

Mitchell Laks