Bug 102538 - Keyboard freeze at CD Test window, power-on required
Summary: Keyboard freeze at CD Test window, power-on required
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-16 21:37 UTC by Richard Hitt
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-01-11 01:03:08 UTC
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Description Richard Hitt 2003-08-16 21:37:27 UTC
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Description of problem:
With severn CD 1 in the CD driver of my HP Pavilion ze5250 laptop computer, I
boot (or do power-on) and things proceed normally until
the first install window (the one that allows me to test my CDs).
At that time the keyboard and everything else freezes.  Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not
work.  I must power-on.  At power-on, under the same circumstances, the same
thing happens.

To fix:  about midway through the bringup sequence, during initscript
processing, I press and hold the ENTER key (thus causing many keyboard
interrupts per second).  I keep the key held.  This always results in the CD1
test beginning, at which time I release the ENTER key.  Tests of CD2 and CD3
proceed normally.  Installation proceeds normally.

This problem, and its fix, occur 100% repeatably.

I had the same problem installing RedHat 9, shrike, on the same laptop a few
months ago, and I resolved it the same way, by pressing and holding the ENTER key.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.put severn CD1 in CD drive
2.power on
3.wait for CD verification window
4.attempt to hit ENTER
    

Actual Results:  nothing

Expected Results:  CD1 testing should have started

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-08-16 23:30:27 UTC
Does booting with 'acpi=off' help?

Comment 2 Richard Hitt 2003-08-25 23:35:34 UTC
No, acpi=off does not change the symptom.
                                                                                
I booted with severn CD1 in the CD drive.  At the boot: prompt I typed
linux acpi=off
and hit enter.  Booting began.  At installation setup I received a box
saying that ohci1394 was loaded.  The next box was for CD testing, and
the keyboard was unresponsive.  I could not do Ctrl-Alt-Del.  I had to
power-off in order to recover the computer.  The symptoms are the same
as before, when I did not use acpi=off.
                                                                                
I had installed severn by the workaround described in my original report,
above; it still works fine.  This additional note is in (belated; sorry)
response to Jeremy Katz's question.  Happy to try further suggestions.
Happy to test boot floppy images or other workarounds you may want me
to try.
                                                                                
Richard


Comment 3 Tomislav Drpic 2004-01-29 20:23:05 UTC
Richard,

I have a HP Pavilion ze4540 while trying to install Fedora Core 1 I 
faced the same problem.

The solution I came up with it to disable Legacy USB Support in the 
BIOS.  So far everything else seems to be working fine (even the 
Microsoft USB Scroll Mouse).

Hope it helps,

Tomislav Drpic S.

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2004-11-20 01:58:08 UTC
still a problem in latest release ?

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2005-01-11 01:03:08 UTC
closing due to inactivity.



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