Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 176198
pass-thru PS/2 mouse port (eg IBM Model M13) stops working
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:23:47 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I had been using kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 that is, the kernel version is 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp My IBM trackpoint keyboards with pass-through PS/2 ports (a Model M13 and a Trackpoint IV) both worked just fine. I upgraded to the newer package of kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 and the mouse now fails to work. I went back to old kernel and the keyboard and mouse works again. The machine is a dual Opteron 242 with 2GB of RAM on a Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875 / AGP AMD 8xxx chipset). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot using new kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: logitech trackman marble FX attached to the pass-through port of model M13 or trackpoint IV keyboard stops working. If I use a PS/2 KVM switch, the pass-though mouse stops working when it was previously working on the other computer once I perform my usual switchover keypresses. When I detach the linux computer it gets back to working again. Expected Results: it should just work like it always did. Additional info: error occurs without the KVM switch too.
Please save the output of dmesg for both kernels (with "dmesg > /tmp/d.out") and attach both d.out to the bug. Please do not drop in the comments box! Use the "attach file" link! Thanks!
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.