Bug 371231

Summary: my PS/2 keyboard does not work with the latest kernel build (but is fine otherwise)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eliran Itzhak <eliranitzhak>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Eliran Itzhak 2007-11-08 14:29:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
A PS/2 Keyboard stopped working with 2.6.23.1-21.fc7.
It works with 2.6.23.1-10.fc7, and works at the BIOS level too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.23.1-21.fc7

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot to 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 and see if you're ps/2 keybaord works.
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Actual results:
Keyboard does not work, not even the caps/num lock leds.

Expected results:


Additional info:
The machine is a P3 450Mhz
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-08 19:08:14 UTC 
Could you possibly try some of these other kernels to see where the problem
starts? You would need to erase the -21 kernel first, then install each one of
these using rpm and erase after testing:

-17
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22895

-19
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22976

-20
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23094
Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-08 21:17:17 UTC 
Also, can you boot to runlevel 3 (text mode) and see if the keyboard works
there? This may be an X driver problem of some kind caused by the kernel update.

Just edit /etc/inittab and change the "5" to a "3" in this line:

id:5:initdefault:
Comment 3 Eliran Itzhak 2007-11-09 10:16:59 UTC 
My system defaults to init level 3 anyway. The keyboard works at the BIOS, but
not after that.
Hmm, the problem seems to have gone away... I've installed cPanel yesterday
(which i already hate) but i doubt if that's what solved the problem.
Anyway, I'm closing this bug report, and will reopen if it comes back later.