Re: 2.2.14 ps2 keyboard/mouse death

From: Baloo Ursidae (baloo_ursidae@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 21:54:10 EST

  • Next message: Hans Reiser: "[Fwd: 2.2.14 oopses : is this a clue ?]"

    >if you're quite sure that you haven't accidentally omitted
    >the kbd or mouse drivers, my only explanation would be that
    >their respective interrupts are getting ignored/etc by the
    >IOAPIC code. SMP interrupts are handled quite differently
    >(better, actually), but there's some fairly hair-raising
    >dependence on vendor-filled tables to get interrupts mapped
    >to the right sources.

    Considering that kbd isn't an option at all and I got the mouse right...

    >how does 2.3.40 do? SMP is really quite a lot better on a modern
    >kernel (remember that "stable kernel" means "not changing much",
    >and in particular does NOT mean "crashes less"...)

    Kind of like the Debian versions of "stable" and "unstable?"

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