From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: This apply to DELL Precision 530 and MEDIO2900 Laptop On DELL Precision 530 (dual capable but single processor) At the first reboot after the installation once the kernel loads and the graphical boot process start the ps/2 keyboard and mouse stop working. If a USB keyboard is used the problem does not affect the USB keyboard. The kernel installed by anaconda was smp and every time I tried to boot with the ps/2 keyboard and mouse both stop working. The problem is not present if USB keyboard is used. The problem completely disappear if the kernel-smp is replaced by the regular kernel. On the MEDION 2900 laptop the problem happen at the first screen of the installation that ask for verify the media or not. If a USB keyboard is used there is no problem with the installation. On the MEDION laptop, after installed, the problem didn't occur. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.7.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On the MEDION Laptop 1. insert the installation CD once the screen asking to verify the media appear the keyboard and mouse stop working 2. plug an external USB keyboard and reboot and the installation process can be completed without problems On the DELL Precision 530 (dual capable but with one CPU) using ps/2 keyboard and mouse 1. do the first part of the installation until it ask for reboot 2. when the graphical boot is started the keyboard and mouse are already freeze 3. boot the machine with a USB keyboard and replace the smp kernel with the single processor kernel and the problem disappear. Additional info:
Media verify occurs before X is started therefore moving this to kernel
I have suffered from the same problem I cannot use PS2 keyboard and mouse with smp kernel. My server consists of Intel 7501CW2 + dual Xeon. Suprisingly, I fount that only keyboard works normally when I pluged the keyborad to mouse port. But mouse still doesn't work. And, when I boot with non-smp kernel, both of keyboard and mouse work fine.
I have what appears to be the same problem (including the mouse/keyboard swap), also on a dual Xeon Intel 7501 box (Supermicro 6013P-i). (Kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp) Problem goes away when I boot non-SMP kernel.
The same problem occurs on an Acer 7600G (PIV 2,6 GHz HT) - no mouse and keyboard function when booting the 2.6.6-1.435-smp kernel; no problems with the 2.6.6-1.435 kernel.
Bug was reassigned to kernel, but not reassigned to kernel engineers. Reassigning the human aspect also.... ;o)
With kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp the problem seems to be solved :-)
I tried kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i686.rpm and kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.i686.rpm. In both cases, PS/2 keyboard would not work. But kernel-2.6.8-1.521.i686.rpm works.
Both of the kernels are SMP that you indicate do not work, but the one that you indicate works, is a UP kernel. It seems as if this might be an SMP kernel related issue perhaps.
The E750x one is SMP specific. Since Jie Shen doesn't give any hardware info its hard to speculate on that one
Follow up to comment # 7: The hardware I referred to in that comment was: Dell Precision 530 with Dual Xeon processors at 1.8GHZ each, running Fedora core 2.
I have the same problem on a Intel 840 Dual p3 board. Havent tried using a non smp kernel. Currently trying to recompile the kernel..
FWIW... I've got an E7505/P4 hyperthreaded system that, with the 2.6.5-1.358 SMP kernel (from the original FC2 distribution), would lose the keyboard after 10 to 12 days. The keyboard would just go dead, and only a complete reboot (not power cycle) would bring it back. With the non-SMP kernel, it was fine. I upgraded to the 2.6.8-1.521 SMP kernel and the keyboard has been fine ever since. The system has been running without any problem for over 21 days now. It would seem that something in 2.6.8-1.521 fixed my problem. The question I'm only qualified to ask is, was the fix deliberate?
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