2.2.14 ps2 keyboard/mouse death

[Baloo Ursidae]

>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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