PS2 Keyboard and mouse dead in FC3 on Dell Precision 530

[Keith Hunt]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:07:36 -0500, J. Epperson <epperson at alumni.unc.edu> wrote:
> Sent this last night, but my registration was apparently not complete
> and it did not go to the list (not in archive, anyway)>
> 
> The i get an error when booting FC3 on a Dell Precision 530 ("i8042.c:
> Can't read CTR while initializing i8042").  The keyboard and mouse are
> then "dead" from there on--can't press a key and trigger kudzu before
> the timeout, can't type a username/password on the X11 login screen,
> etc.  Odd, since they both worked fine all the way through a graphical
> install, just not with the resulting kernel config.  Reading suggests
> apci/apic problem in i8042.c code, I've tried the suggested noapic and
> noacpi kernel line parms, but nothing's working.  I did include SELinux
> in "warn" mode in the install, FWIW.
> 
> Installed FC1, and everything worked ok.  Will try FC1-->FC3 upgrade
> tonight.  Suggestions welcome.
> 
> --jake
> 

Could this be the same bug described in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123535

This was for FC2 but it may be still not fixed. It happens when you
are using the SMP kernel. If this is your problem, the only
workarounds I know are to disable legacy USB in the BIOS or switch to
the single processor kernel.


-- 
Keith