On 06/17/2010 08:04 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:18:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >> O> At that point, after the installer's vmlinux has been >> >>> booted, the keystrokes on the usb keyboard are not >>> recognized when attempting to select the installation >>> media check options. This is quite odd because the >>> same usb keyboard is usable earlier in the installation >>> >> Odd it may see but not unexpected. Until the kernel loads the BIOS is >> doing emulation of a PC keyboard via USB. After the kernel USB loads the >> OS takes over control. If that fails you have a problem. >> >> >>> Is there any workaround for this (as the Sun workstation >>> only has usb ports for keyboard and mouse) short of >>> waiting for Fedora 14? >>> >> I guess a serial or vnc based network install might be helpful for >> debugging but hardly useful for production. >> >> Try booting with the option "irqpoll" just in case the USB stuff is >> having interrupt problems. >> > Unfortunately, neither irqpoll nor noapic eliminated the non-functional > usb keyboard at the media check. I did notice that the F11 x86_64 > install seemed to randomly have issues with the keyboard as well in > the media check but F13 is always failing. I am currently burning F12 > x86_64's install DVD to see if that works any better. > Jack > ps I have two identical Sun W2100Z with the latest 2.5 Phoenix firmware > with F10 x86_64 installed and both behave the same way so a hardware > failure is highly unlikely. > I am using usb-based wireless KB and Mouse. They are both functional during bios, and after F13 boot - single user, and multi-user. JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
