From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 20 21:46:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CF6106566B for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cowens@greatbaysoftware.com) Received: from portcityhosting.com (bayringfw.portcityweb.com [64.140.243.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87328FC1D for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([173.14.128.81]) by portcityhosting.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:27 -0500 X-WatchGuard-Mail-Exception: Allow Message-ID: <4B070F07.8010600@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:59 -0500 From: Charles Owens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030607050402000001060406" X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: USB keyboard flaky with PAE kernel, 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:30 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030607050402000001060406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow Howdy, I'm still digging into it, put preliminary testing is showing that with a PAE-enabled 7.1-RELEASE-p8 kernel a USB keyboard functions only occasionally, if you're lucky. This flakiness is being seen with several different server models that we support (HP and IBM, all Xeon based). If we boot a non-PAE kernel then the USB keyboard is rock solid. For what it's worth (probably little) I can run the same PAE kernel on an old Pentium II system and a USB keyboard works fine. What is the best way to dig into this? Any and all assistance greatly appreciated. I can provide remote access to a testbed of these systems if useful. Charles (And, yes, I do know that amd64 is better than PAE for various obvious reasons. ;-) ) -- **Charles Owens** *Great Bay Software**|** ***www.GreatBaySoftware.com**** --------------030607050402000001060406--