Bug 165513 – No keyboard or mouse on console with SMP kernel

Bug 165513 - No keyboard or mouse on console with SMP kernel

Summary:	No keyboard or mouse on console with SMP kernel

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2005-08-09 20:25 EDT by Wade Hampton
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-08-15 14:46:43 EDT
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Description Wade Hampton 2005-08-09 20:25:38 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.3.1

Description of problem:
The system is a Supermicro dual 2.4G XEON workstation with dual ATAPI drives, PS/2 keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.  I updated from RH9 to FC4.0 (with some pain), and upon first boot, the SMP kernel OOPS'ed.  If I turned on ACPI in the BIOS, the SMP kernel would boot, but I did not have a keyboard or mouse.  The upgraded 2.6.12 SMP kernel would at least boot.  I can provide additional information including motherboard, etc. tomorrow.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.11 and 2.6.12 kernels

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Turn on computer
2.  Select SMP kernel
3.  Try to use the keyboard
  

Actual Results:  no keyboard or mouse

Expected Results:  a functioning computer

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To be provided upon request

Comment 1 Wade Hampton 2005-08-15 11:05:17 EDT

Tried the i8042.nomux kernel option.  I still can not boot.  Currently I am
using Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp.

Comment 2 Wade Hampton 2005-08-15 13:35:31 EDT

Bios was version 1.0.  I visited the Supermicro site and downloaded/installed
bios 1.3b.  Upon reboot, the system now has a keyboard/mouse with SMP kernel! 
Issue appeared to be the bios version.

Comment 3 Wade Hampton 2005-08-27 11:11:13 EDT

I do recommend that this be added to a FAQ.  If others find a similar problem,
upgrading the BIOS could be the solution.

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