Keyboard is frozen on boot of 2.3.41

[Harold Oga]

On 03:35 PM 1/30/00 , Linus Torvalds wrote:
>More suggestions, if you have the time and the energy:
>
>  - try to use the "kbd-reset" kernel command line at bootup, see if that
>    makes any difference (it does a full keyboard init sequence at bootup,
>    and it has been known to matter on some machines).

Didn't make any difference.

>  - disable the keyboard before changing the controller mode in open_aux(),
>    and re-order the operations, ie make the init sequence look like this:
>
>         kbd_write_command_w(KBD_CCMD_MOUSE_ENABLE);     /* Enable mouse controller */
>
>         send_data(KBD_CMD_DISABLE);                     /* Disable keyboard during mode set */
>         kbd_write_cmd(AUX_INTS_ON);                     /* Enable controller ints for both keyboard and mouse */
>         send_data(KBD_CMD_ENABLE);                      /* Enable keyboard again */
>
>         aux_write_ack(AUX_ENABLE_DEV);                  /* Enable the mouse itself */

Do difference here as well.  However, from the sounds of things, my problem
seems to be a totally different from everyone else, as the only time I have a
problem is when gpm is expecting a ps/2 mouse connected to the mouse port and
nothing is connected there.

-Harold
  
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