Somebody using a Keyboard and iteraid?

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

hi,

i´ve got an mainboard with this cool iteraid controller because i needed some additional ide-ports. so i have to patch my kernels with this iteraid driver. i heared some love sources have this too. ok the driver works fine (2.6.7-gentoo-dev-sources and 2.6.8-love1-blah), there´s only one little thing. when compiling the driver into the kernel my keyboard gets f*cked up. dmesg shows me

carpman

CodeHacker84 · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject:

J.M.I.T. posted a probable solution to this issue in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1365224#1365224.

[edit]: my bad, not the same issue, guess I'm 0 for 2 today.
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itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

i´ve disabled SATA in bios.
i can try to use the ps/2 adapter from my mouse but the problem occures even at boot... dmesg gets flooded with this messages before i´m even able to use my keyboard. i assume the iteraid module is causing this somehow. but there seem to be people whithout this.

carpman · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

there must be a difference in our setups...

i got this problem some while ago when i was mandrake user..

i´ve got an Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro. there´s an BIOS option "GigaRAID Function" which can be used to set the Controller to "ATA" for use with CDROMS, i tried it yesterday and no change. I also tried to use iteraid as a module instead of compiling it in (like i did before). as soon as i "modprobe iteraid" the thing starts to interfere my keyboard. it´s not the dmesg entries that bug me. it´s that i´m not able to use my keyboard right anymore. the cursor keys aren´t useable anymore. mostley they produce endless numbers. and key combinations simply lock up everything. i assume this is because some "keycode" gets "pressed" all the time filling keyboard buffers with nonsene.

kernels i tried:
2.6.7-gentoo-r8
2.6.7-gentoo-r9
2.6.8-love1-rc2

ite-source: 1.45

system:
Athlon-XP 3000+/200Mhz FSB
GA7-N400Pro
1Gb DDR-RAM CAS 2,5
ATI Radeon 9500pro 128Mb
2 Harddisks on nvidia_ide
2 Harddisks on iteraid (no array)
Soundblaster Live

would be nice to make a comparrison with your setup carpman.
did you ever flash the ite firmware? i didn´t

[edit]tried 2.6.8-love2-rc2 now which claims to have iteraid 1.44. same problem[/edit]

carpman · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:07 pm Post subject:

Do you apic disabled via kernel boot config?

I am using gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r11 with ite compiled in.

Mouse is currently usb with ps/converter but i am about to try usb.

what comparisions would you like to make?
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carpman · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

ok this is what i found, running ps/2 mouse is fine so long as you have usb mouse in bios disabled, if you don't the mouse will not work properly, the cursor flies about all over the place.

If i allow usb mouse in bios and setup my optical as per howto in docs & trick forum then i get the same problem with cursor flying about all over the place and just not usable.

Not sure if this the same issue as you, if so try disabling usb mouse in bios and using ps/2 mouse.

my mouse configs are:

usb mouse

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

do you get the same dmesg messages?

i will try to disable apic and/or usb-mouse in bios and post my results...

for the comparison. write down your hardware specs for now. i have an idea this could be triggered by having more than one harddisk on one ide_channel of the ITE controller. like i have.

[edit]oh forgive me... i didn´t see your signature. ok next question. on boot what version of "GigaRAID Bios" is displayed? i´ve got 1.41.
disabling usb-mouse changed nothing. so did disabling local apic...[/edit]

carpman · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject:

The giggaraid on boot is 1.41. I have the sata controller disabled, both normal ide channel are used, 40gb ibm drive on on and crwriter/dvd on other.

The dmesg you gave earlier seems to be about keyboard, this is delt with in other tread posted ealier in this thread as it is about type of keyboard you have and un assigned keys.
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itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

no thats actually the problem. without the iteraid module i don´t have this problems. i´ve a pretty standard keyboard here. there are 2-3 other people with the same problem when using iteraid linux driver... at least google tells me this. haven´t found a solution yet. there´s no way i could assign cod "00" to something. even if i do this, the real problem doesn´t get solved. i cannot use certain keys on my keyboard oder keycombinations because random buttons seem to "get pressed" and at some point my system dies. i think because of overflowing keyboard buffers or something. could probably be a hardware glinch in the ite-chip. problem is, in windows it works perfect.

carpman · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

tinyau · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 10

I am also encountered this problem as well, kernel message and dmesg results are flooded with the following message.

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

finally somebody with the same problem. please tell me if you have some hint...

@carpman:i did patch the kernel (2.6.7-gentoo-dev-sources-r9) by hand first. i editeted a makefile etc. and so created a new entry for the menuconfig-thing. copied the iteraid.c and iteraid.h from the official ITE 1.45 sources.
with the love sources for 2.6.7 i used a patch postet in the love-sources forum.
and finally with love sources 2.6.8 iteraid was included so i think it´s not a patching problem because i get the same problem with this kernel/module...

carpman · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

if you want i can put link to my kernel config for gentoo-dev-sources and exactly how i patch kernel, maybe it something in the kernel config!
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itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

yeah kernelconfig would be a great help. i will try to compile with yours then... maybe there´s some odd dependency nobody knows about.

cz- · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Yeah, i have a ga-4n700pro2, and after having numerous problems (apic, r8169, and the iteraid ) with gentoo, i finally moved to slackware and everything started to work better, eventually had the kernel setup fine, but recently (last week or so) i moved back to gentoo, and i am having all the problems listed in this thread, at first i thought it was devfs or apic being enabled again, but i have now disabled both and its still happening, the kernel is almost identical to what i was running before, 2.6.6 + mm1 patches + iteraid patch

carpman · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject:

cz- · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Ive compiled 2.6.7 with carpman's config, and it works fine

I would love to find out what he has done differently

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

im JUST before the compile with carpmans config. i grepped the .config quickly and saw that in my one "BLK_DEV_IDE_SCSI" wasnt set... perhaps thats an hint. now i will compile with carpmans config and report what happens.

[edit]compile is over. so far everything works here... WOW. it wasnt BLK_DEV_IDESCSI because i found out this is the old scsi emulation needed in 2.4 for cdwriting. it makes no difference if turned on or off... i will compare the configs from me and carpman closer to see where the problem is located. perhaps something with inputdevices. i see that my keyboard here in X isnt acting the same as before... cant say how exactly.[/edit]

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

ok i found a first option which brought my old problem back. its CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD. If turned on the problem occures. with this turned of i can use iteraid without any problem. i will tweak my config further and report future problems here.

carpman · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:29 am Post subject:

Hello, glad my config was of use

though i could not tell you what i did different.

You could compare your config with mine with diff using command line or one of the gui interfaces such as meld.

Would be useful to know what issue is so i don't end up in same situation.
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itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

ok i checked all my configs and tested by disabling CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD. had this setting enabled before, what brought my ms usb wheel mouse to werk WITH mousewheel but broke iteraid. when i disable this option iteraid works like a charm but i don´t see any possibility to get my mouswheel working. (perhaps by an ps/2 adapter but i disklike the idea of using such...).

carpman · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

itti · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 40

bug report to whom? i´ve no contact to ITE and i doubt somebody in linux community will troubleshoot third party drivers

are you still using a ps/2 adapter?