On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:35:42 -0500 Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Everything works fine with kernel-2.6.9-1.667 > > However all of the 2.6.10 kernels I have tried from devel have given > the "i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042" error during > the boot process and the keyboard doesn't work. > > Booting with acpi=off solves the problem but given that this is a > laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150) this seems less than ideal. > > Any ideas? > Try booting with "usb-handoff" - this works for me on a dual xeon with i7505 chipset and smp kernels: it's worth a go on the laptop. - David