Bug 144651

Summary: Keyboard and mouse problems with SMP kernels
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Fat Rat Bastard <fat_rat_bastard>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, pfrields, raines, sleather
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Description Fat Rat Bastard 2005-01-10 11:08:30 UTC
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Description of problem:
I just installed nahant b2 on an SMP i386 system. If I boot to an SMP
kernel, once I get past grub, my keyboard and mouse fail to function
properly. Strangely enough, input on my keyboard causes my mouse
cursor to jump around on the screen in a seemingly random fashion.
However, using the UP seems to not cause this strange behavior.
Needless to say I was unable to complete the install (complete
firstboot) w/o selecting a UP kernel.

I have compiled stock 2.6.10 UP and SMP kernels on this RHEL 4
install, and DO NOT get this behavior.

dmesg shows the following when grep'ing for 'mouse' when booting the
RHEL SMP kernels:

[root minerva ~]# dmesg | grep -i mouse
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio0
psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio0
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 1 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio0/input0 lost synchronization,
throwing 2 bytes away.



Hardware:

SuperMicro X5DAL-TG2 motherboard
Intel E7505 chipset

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.648_EL and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.675_EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RHEL 4b2
2. Boot to SMP RHEL 4b2 kernels listed above.
3.
    

Expected Results:  Everything to work fantastically, what else?

Additional info:

Comment 1 Steven Leatherman 2005-02-15 17:18:49 UTC
This problem still exists in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise
4.  I can duplicate the problem using RHEL 4 on a Dell Precision 530
workstation and the SMP kernel.

Comment 2 Paul Raines 2005-03-31 23:25:11 UTC
We have the same problem on a dual XEON system using an Intel SE7505VB2 board
on the stock RHEL4 smp kernel.

Comment 3 Paul Raines 2005-04-01 15:34:04 UTC
Turns out disabling Legacy USB in the BIOS makes the problem go away.