I got it to work.. I needed to disable "legacy usb support" from the bios!
Thanks for the help. On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:23:21 +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 17 October 2004 06:16, Ahmad Khayyat wrote: > > 1. Kernel 2.4 boots nicely without additional options (only vga=771). > > 2. Other 3 kernels boot nicely with the additional option (acpi=off). > > 3. Without acpi=off option, 2.6 kernels boot but keyboard is not > > working (ssh connects fine and system responses to it). > > > > So, effictively I can use kernel 2.6 but without acpi. Now what > > exactly am I losing for not having acpi? and is this acceptable in a > > laptop? > > ACPI is fairly essential for modern laptops as among other things it > drives power management. > > I'm not sure what exactly is causing your keyboard problems. > It is very much possible this is not an installation problem, but that > there is a bug in the kernel or that the ACPI of your laptop is not > properly supported by the 2.6.8 kernel. > > For example, I found this message: > http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/ML/tlinux-users/6200/6245.html > > I suggest you search ACPI and laptop mailing lists and maybe post your > problem there. > Starting points could be the debian-laptop mailing list and the ACPI > website on sourceforge (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/). > > Good luck, > FJP > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
