linux-kernel - USB Keyboard

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:32:45 -0400
From:	"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: USB Keyboard

I have multiple AMD 64-bit servers in several configurations,
with several different motherboards, which fail to recognize
a USB keyboard when booted from a "stock" Linux kernel.
They only work with a RedHat kernel! I have removed all but
one CPU from one in an attempt to find the problem.

The drivers:
 	uhci_hcd      34064  0
 	ehci_hcd      34056  0

install fine, but remain unused. They don't generate any interrupts!
I even installed dm_mod (after this snapshot), thinking maybe it
would fix it. Anyway, the machines can't be accessed without a keyboard
because they don't have anything but USB. They are not on a network
either, which makes troubleshooting without a keyboard a bitch. There
apparently is a keyboard controller (which gets one interrupt), but
it is not connected to a keyboard socket.

            CPU0
   0:    4691734    IO-APIC-edge  timer
   1:          1    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
   7:          0    IO-APIC-edge  parport0
   8:          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
   9:          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
  12:        104    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  14:       8719    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
  16:          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb4
  17:       1079   IO-APIC-level  aic79xx
  18:          0   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb1
  19:          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
  20:          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb3
  21:       6735   IO-APIC-level  eth0
  22:       2334   IO-APIC-level  eth1
NMI:          0 
LOC:    4691769 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

I have tried the following stock kernels. Manufacturing and the
customer "requires" Linux version 2.6.N

linux-2.6.8 linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6.10 linux-2.6.11
linux-2.6.11.9 linux-2.6.12 linux-2.6.12.5 linux-2.6.13
linux-2.6.13.4 linux-2.6.15.4 linux-2.6.16.24 linux-2.6.16.4
linux-2.6.19

I have tried various games such as "pci=routeirq." Nothing
works! Does anybody know how RedHat gets the USB keyboard to
be recognized?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.71 BogoMips).
New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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