Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:00:48 +0200 | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 Spurious ACK/NAK on isa0060/serio0, 2.6.18-rc2 is fine | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:56:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:34:34AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:10:52AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > So I tried 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 on my opteron. (Running 64-bit) > > > > > > The kernel did not boot, but went into an infinite loop of > > > > > > Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0 > > > over and over. I have two keyboards, one attached the usual > > > way and another attached where a mouse usually goes. > > > This works fine with 2.6.18-rc2, but no longer now. > > > One keyboard is dead, and on the other, two of the > > > leds blink on and off. > > > > > > Unplugging a keyboard changes the repeating message to > > > Spurious NAK ... instead. > > > > > > Unplugging both keyboards stops the nonsense, but then - no keyboard. > > > > > > This kernel also fails to mount root, a fact that is hard to see as > > > the stupid messages quickly scroll everything else away. > > > That might be something simple like the changed ATA config > > > or multithreaded pci probe. > > > > > > There just cannot be any program "trying to access hw directly", > > > I don't get the root fs so I don't even have init running. > > > > > I got rid of the multithreaded PCI probe - and the root fs was > > recognised again (I have both SATA and SCSI, perhaps they > > were probed in wrong order) > > Are you using the ata_piix driver by chance for your root partition? If > so, the multi-thread stuff will not work unless you use the hack below. > No, the root is on via sata.
> > Curiously enough, the keyboard trouble went away too. Odd. > > Now posting from a working 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 (With the jiffies hotfix) > > The keyboard stuff is very odd, your keyboard should not be on the PCI > bus :(
No, it is almost ordinary. Almost, for I have another keyboard still connected to the ps2 mouse port, I used to have a two-user setup. I don't have any pci cards with keyboards connected.
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