From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:59:14 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: Keyboard trouble In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50712090942j6fadf611n336d4a14d8c26262@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1365dd32-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > What could cause a PS2 keyboard to work with the BIOS setup, with the > Plan 9 install disc, but not with any of four (!) Linux Live CDs? i have not seen this problem, but in arch/i386/boot/setup.S there are several things that poke the keyboard. the repeat is set, some a20 gate stuff is poked and there keyboard ctlr's buffer is emptied. plan 9 leaves a lot of that stuff alone. to be honest, this seems unlikely but you could try compiling linux kernels commenting out the various bits that fiddle the kbd controller. otherwise there's a chance of interaction between usb legacy mode emulation and linux' usb stack. - erik