kernel upgrade to 2.6.15 and now no keyboard or mouse.

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

I install latest linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp (or linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 or 
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486) on  my system and now input devices keyboard and 
mouse do not work.

dmesg|grep input
iput: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0


cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6




of course on my other systems - same keyboard and mouse it says

input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103


I first did a fresh debian sarge install, chose desktop. and then change to 
sid in apt/sources.lst
 then did apt-get dist-upgrade. Went fine. 

Then upgraded to latest linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp. 
Had some messy fight with udev (wanted a kernel > 2.6.12 initially)and finally 
got the new kernel installed with udev.

Now the system thinks the only input device is a speaker.  No mouse or 
keyboard. I can only ssh into the system. 

kind of sad.

Any ideas.
Mitchell Laks