Bug#357187: Fwd: Re: Bug#357187: installation-report: etch beta2 install not recognize keyboard mouse
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Subject: Re: Bug#357187: installation-report: etch beta2 install not
recognize keyboard mouse
Date: Thursday 16 March 2006 13:58
From: Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>
To: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
On Thursday 16 March 2006 06:28, you wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 04:33, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > I get frozen console with no keyboard or mouse activity. I can only
> > ssh into the system.
>
> What type of keyboard and mouse do you have? PS/2 or usb?
> If usb, does your system also have a PS/2 connector for the keyboard?
> If so, can you try installing using a PS/2 keyboard?
As I indicated (I thought) in my original post:
I use only ps2 products.
I am an experienced debian installer. I install debian servers in high
volume server environments. I store medical images on debian servers. I
CARE about the debian install system and I use debian in all my latest
systems (>30 working debian servers...).
Standard PS/2 keyboard. I tried my usual pair of Microsoft Internet
Keyboard and microsoft Intellimouse 1.2a ps2 mouse as well as trying
knock off keyboards and mice.
I think it is the kernel in the new installer. I repeat I have installed
on this system Woody and Sarge many times with no problem.
This keyboard failure to recognize happens with the debian etch installer
or if I upgrade a sarge install system on that box to the 2.6.15 debian
kernel.
I have done 2 ab initio installs of sarge -> upgrade desktop system to
sid. Works with keyboard. Then upgrade kernel from sarge 2.6.8 to 2.6.15
no keyboard, and can only log in and use system via ssh.
I have posted ouput from dmesg|input in that kernel - only sees the
speaker no keyboard or mouse
dmesg on an upgraded sarge system with the 2.6.8 kernel tells me the
following
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86,
might be trying access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86,
might be trying
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
On this motherboard the keyboard and mouse live on a subsystem called
isa0060
I have checked that the debian kernel activates ISA:
/boot/config-2.6.15-1-k7-smp:CONFIG_ISA=y
I don't know what the problem is.
Mitchell
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