On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:37:43 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Yet none of this will fix his reboot issue, if indeed it's caused by the > onboard 8042, which I suspect. I think the kernel parm mentioned by > Paul is Darren's best bet at this point at getting the Model M working > properly. > > My guess is that Darren's Sandy Bridge motherboard simply doesn't like > that old KB with the inbuilt 8042, and the way the chip handles A20 > switching. To prove this theory Darren needs to try a modern KB. If > that doesn't fix it, then we dive into the Intel graphics driver, mobo > BIOS settings, possible bad motherboard, etc.
For diagnostic purposes, it probably is a good idea to try another keyboard, temporarily at least. But I have seen an incorrect keyboard definition cause reboot problems. Another machine I use has a Dell SK-8125 USB keyboard. This keyboard model has 103 keys. It doesn't match the default pc105 key mapping. I had reboot problems with it too, until I set XKBMODEL to dellsk8125. It works fine now. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/799604699.44842.1324472374263.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
