On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 07:11:10AM -0400, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Luca et al, > > > > Several people have been finding the PS/2 keyboard and mouse suddenly > > stop working a few hours after loading the asus_atk0110 module on > > machines using the Asus P7P55D or P7P55D-E board. For example: > [...] > > From [2] I see that you tracked it down to a BIOS problem. > > Not really, I _suspect_ that there's a bug in the BIOS, but I wasn't > able to confirm it; maybe it's something that the driver does. > In the thread that you link Javier never replied with the results of the test. > > > So I am > > curious: would there be a way to detect affected machines and > > automatically work around this? Toy patch just to give the idea > > follows. > > That would leave the user without any monitoring options; using the > native driver is very risky in this situation, the board has an EC > that goes out and reads the sensors on its own. > Furthermore the bug does not seem to affect all the users of that > board, it may be BIOS and/or board revision dependent. > > I'm adding Jean and Guenter in CC: what do you think about blalisting > the driver on P7P55D? > I don't like it much, but in the absence of a fix it seems to be the only available option. A stuck keyboard and mouse is worse than having no monitor options. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
