Re: [gentoo-server] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel [asking again]

[Jason Harley]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:06 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
> No one has any ideas, thoughts, recommendations, jeers, remembrances, prayers, etc.??? Can
> I provide any other info? Am I missing something completely obvious?

I'd booting the  kernel with the "acpi=off" option, to see if that helps
you out any.

> ------------ original message --------------
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I recently decided to abandon my little foray into FreeBSD and come back to gentoo on my
> home machine. I downloaded 2005.0, burned it and did the install with few hitches. I
> wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkernel do it's thing,
> installing a 2.6 kernel. I decided not to bother with KDE or gnome and just install
> fluxbox, which is all I ever use anyway.
>
> So, here's my problem: my keyboard and/or mouse keep going berserk. Well, not so much
> berserk... they just stop working half the time. I share the same keyboard with a windows
> machine, and it works fine (I'm typing this email with it).
>
> Last week, I noticed a lot of entries in the logs like this:
>
> Aug 16 22:33:53 venus atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xe0 on
> isa0060/serio0).
> Aug 16 22:33:53 venus atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e060 <keycode>' to make it known.
> Aug 16 22:40:18 venus atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x8e on
> isa0060/serio0).
> Aug 16 22:40:18 venus atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e00e <keycode>' to make it known.
>
> And I found a thread on the forums where the poster went ahead and set the keycodes as
> indicated... for all of them. So, last week, I took the log and cut and paste it together
> to make a script that set all of them... at least until today. Just a little while ago it
> started printing these lines again, and I lost the mouse and the keyboard. Restarted X and
> it was okay for a few minutes, but then it freaked out again and now I can't type anything
> at the command line even after killing X.
>
> Oh, I also managed to find the mouse and keyboard boot info from my logs:
>
> Aug  9 20:28:35 venus input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> Aug  9 20:28:35 venus input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
>
> So, if anyone has any ideas or can point me in any direction at all, that would be great.
>
> Ben
>
> PS: Wow, I'm logged into the box via ssh (which is working fine) and looking at the
> logs... when I lost the keyboard about twenty minues ago, there's this MTRR stuff and then
> hundreds of lines with the call trace stuff:
>
> Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd800000,800000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc000000,1000000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd000000,800000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc000000,1000000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:38 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd000000,800000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd800000,800000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cc000000,1000000 found
> Aug 16 22:46:56 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd000000,800000 found
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus sibling
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus task             PC      pid father child younger older
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus init          S 00000000     0     1      0     2               (NOTLB)
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus dfe3fecc 00000082 000000d0 00000000 c01313c2 c0131656 c039f200 c039eb00
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 00000001 00000000 c14053e0 00000000 0000082a 534ee15d 0001d93f c0399bc0
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527a20 c1527b44 1f056d90 00000000 1f056d90 dfe3fed4 00000000 00000800
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace:
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01313c2>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0131656>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c033580f>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c011ca6e>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01554f3>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0155127>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01557bf>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0102649>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus migration/0   S C0399960     0     2      1             3       (L-TLB)
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1541fac 00000046 c1527b44 c0399960 dfe3fec4 c1527020 c1541fc4 c0334ffa
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 00000000 c0405640 c14053e0 00000000 0000059d 207d3479 0000000e c1527020
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527520 c1527644 00002648 207cf161 c1405d20 c14053e0 c1540000 c1541fc0
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace:
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0334ffa>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0112759>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01126cf>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012588b>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012580f>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0100cf9>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus ksoftirqd/0   S DF8A6090     0     3      1             4     2 (L-TLB)
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1543fb4 00000046 dffdfa40 df8a6090 dffdfa40 00000000 c1405d40 c14053e0
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 00000000 00000247 c14053e0 00000000 0000006e 018b730b 0001d93c c0399bc0
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c1527020 c1527144 c1542000 00000000 c03fa380 c1542000 00000000 c0119771
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace:
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0119771>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01197ba>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012588b>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012580f>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0100cf9>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus events/0      R running     0     4      1             5     3 (L-TLB)
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus khelper       S C01118A4     0     5      1             6     4 (L-TLB)
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus c154bf5c 00000046 c154bf30 c01118a4 d84a45e0 dfe0aa40 c1511824 dfe0aa40
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus 00000000 c1405d40 c14053e0 00000000 00000156 0c3532c5 0001d92f dfe0aa40
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus dffdf540 dffdf664 00000000 00000246 d2e6fdec c151180c 00000246 c1511800
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus Call Trace:
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01118a4>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0122290>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0121f8d>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0111863>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0111863>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c01221c0>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012588b>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c012580f>]
> Aug 16 22:48:08 venus [<c0100cf9>]
>
> etc....
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