USB keyboard flaky with PAE kernel, 7.1

[Charles Owens]

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. ;-) )

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**Charles Owens**
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