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From: Imre Solti <isolti@×××××××××.edu>
To: Jeff Griffiths <jeffg@×××××××××××.com>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SMP / keyboard kernel issue
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:19:43
Message-Id: 3F9DD23B.2080209@mail2.vcu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SMP / keyboard kernel issue by Lisa Seelye
1 I had once something similar with gentoo-sources in 1.4. Only when
2 selected SMP.
3 Used the vanilla-sources and all was well. Worked with ac-sources as well.
4 Try to use different sources for the kernel and see if problem is there.
5 Imre
6
7 Lisa Seelye wrote:
8 > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:51, Jeff Griffiths wrote:
9 >
10 >>unsure if this is the appropriate forum fo this question, please direct
11 >>me to another list if need be.
12 >>
13 >>a co-worker with an SMP system tried installing gentoo 1.4 a couple of
14 >>days ago; the experience was mostly fine except that whenever he tried
15 >>to boot an SMP kernel, his keyboard would no longer work (?)
16 >>
17 >>any pointers to kernel config options that might work around this issue
18 >>would be greatly appreciated, i am pretty sure it is a quirk in the
19 >>apollo chipset that is causing this =)
20 >>
21 >>the system is a p3 dual processor:
22 >>
23 >>motherboard: super p3tdde
24 >>chipset: via apollo pro 266T
25 >>dual 1.7 GHZ fcpga penium III's
26 >>fastrak100 tx/lp series IDE raid card running RAID1 on two hdd's
27 >>super-old MS natural split keyboard w/ ps2 interface
28 >>1 GB RAM
29 >>
30 >>he installed gentoo on an additional non-raid IDE drive.
31 >
32 >
33 > Silly, but, did he enable keyboard support in the kernel?
34 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] SMP / keyboard kernel issue Jeff Griffiths <jeffg@×××××××××××.com>