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atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
can the above message suggest a cause of why my display locks up and the mouse and keyboard are unusable? I do not get this message on 2.4 kernel but on kernel 2.6.11.6 and 2.6.14 I do. Of course, the system doesn't lock up on 2.4 kernel. only 2.6.x
request...
Hmm, do you use proprietary drivers?
(Please post more about your system!)
EBZ, do you already have a
EBZ,
do you already have a solution for your problem? Ik have the same one :(
me 2
i i get the same error. for me it seems this came up when using both. keyboard and mouse over usb instead of using keyboard over ps2
since then i experience phantom mouse clicks, focus loss and general strange behavior with my mouse.
any ideas?
me too
I got the same issue with the 2.6.8.1-3 kernel. Both mouse and keyboard are on ps/2 though. Gonna try diabling my com serial ports in the Bios.
too
I get the same behaviour too... (that message on boot and system locking up)
I suspect it's a kernel-panic though, because once after this started happening I got a panic-message when I had just switched to another terminal (Alt+F?)...
It think it said some acpi-stuff caused the panic, I'm not too sure though, as I stupidly pressed some key, and a message about undefined keys scrolled the display, so the EIP location was gone....
Is anyone using a custom dsdt?? I suspect it might have started happening, after I compiled my own dsdt into the kernel...
If anyone finds a solution, please say so.
sorry for the repost
Oh, and I'm using a synaptics touchpad (which I think is internally connected to something like ps2, I'm not too sure though).
Bump
My machine will lock on the Spurious ACK message sometimes. Also, when using the console, the computer will seem to freeze (until I hit num-lock, then it unfreezes). Xorg-X11 is highly unstable becuase of this issue as well. Anyone figure something out?
Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0
Try recompiling the kernel with ISA support - for us this issue was resolved by that due to the fact that the mouse and keyboard use the ISA bus on the mobo we are using
the option is
CONFIG_ISA=y
hope this helps
jp
fix
I had the same problem:
it's because the drivers for sata are experimental...
if you add i8042.panicblink=0 as a kernel option this problem does not come.
my grub menu.list
kernel /boot/bzlinux i8042.panicblink=0 root=/dev/sda1 ro
Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0
Problem:
Here is the full text of the "Spurious ACK" error (for sake of googlers and devs).
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directlyThis error repeats forever at an approximate rate of twice a second.
I tried fraujansen suggestion:
After adding that I got past the "Spurious ACK" error.
Now the boot problem I get is this:
ext3-fs: no option "nouser" or missing value.mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid Argument
Setting up other filesystems
Setting up new dev fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
...more stuff...
Kernel Panic
So I think the first step here is to find where an ext3 filesystem is getting mounted with the option "nouser" during the boot process.
More Information:
The 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel boots okay for me.
These kernels have had the same problems as above:
- 2.6.20-1.2300.fc5-i686- 2.6.19-1.2288.2.4.fc5
- 2.6.19.3_TEST1 <-- my own compiled kernel
short list of SW and HW:
+ Fedora Core 5+ WD PATA hardrive
+ ASUS P2L97 mainboard
+ AMD Athlon
+ mouse and keyboard via PS2
-J Tom Moon 79
also posted here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=512839
initrd
Probably you are still using the initial ram disk (initrd) with modules that match your only working kernel 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5. These modules will not load for any other version, therefore your PATA/SATA/SCSI drivers fail to load as well as possibly ext3 support. You need an initrd that matches your kernel version (man mkinitrd), or you need to eliminate the initrd entirely and statically build the necessary drivers for your HD controller and ext3 into the kernel. I do the latter.
Same thing here with 2.6.19
I am trying to boot an Abacus laptop using Knoppix 5.1.1 and getting the same message. I followed the suggestion for the i8042.panicblink=0 so I no longer get the endless messages about trying to directly access hardware.
I suspect it is related to Via chipset in laptop and DMA. (I have used the same CD to boot other machines successfully with Knoppix) For some reason I keep seeing Knoppib setting hdc dma on even when I pass "nodma" as a boot param...
The first thing that looks like error is:
hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Medium Error -- (Sense key=0x03)
(reserved error code) -- (asc=0x15, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Read 10" packet command was:
"20 00 00 05 69 3b 00 00 1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1418476
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354619
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354620
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354621
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354622
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354623
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354624
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354625
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354626
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354627
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 354628
cloop: Read error at pos 720772662 in file /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX/, 56059 bytes lost
etc, etc....
i'm just having the same
i'm just having the same problem. I'm installing xubuntu 7.04 festy fawn alternate cd in an old PIII 800MHz 128Mb Ram pc in which there where a win millenium before but now .
first in the basic install mode i get
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
and
Buffer I/0 error on device hda, logical block16
afterthat I try to boot with the acpi=off and i only have a infinite loop of
"atkbd.c:Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly"
messages
finally i tryied with that what you said before and booted xubuntu with
acpi=off i8042.panicblink=0
and the result again is Buffer I/O error on device hda...
i've also tryied with ubuntu 7.04, kubuntu 7.04 and xubuntu 7.04 desktop apart from the alternate distro :/ any idea?
Possibly more info...
Possibly more info...
I know a few things about linux but thankfully my system has been reliable enough to never have me investigate issues like this.
I am now recieved the error message, I made one kernel modification prior to any issues, and reverted back to my prior kernel and still get the error.
Gentoo System
2.6.19 Kernel (Working for 3+ months prior of daily use)
2.6.19 Kernel with new addition was to recognize 4GB memory since I added an additional 512 chip
Freezing screen was first noticed when I was updating my iPod (fat32) via gtkpod. It only froze after my monitor suspended, which was also around the time my wireless keyboard and mouse would suspend (both USB). When it would freeze and I was still in the GUI, no keyboard commands worked, including backing out (ctrl+alt+bksp) or switching terminals with (ctrl+alt+F#). However, both keyboard and mouse would unsuspend the monitor, and although no keyboard commands worked, the mose would move around, just be un-responsive to clicks.
Also, when the iPod was updating and this happened, it seemed as though it dropped the USB connection to the iPod as it would go from the flashing, "Do Not Disconnect" to a normal screen as if it was only charging, and you could play audio while it was plugged in. Which was never possible before.
Any further diag was impossible since the system was locked. Now it won't even boot, shortly into the grub process it just loops the same error message everyone else sees.
EDIT:
Also, more info:
The iPod is recognized as /dev/sda2 which I have linking to /mnt/ipod
and the last few times this happened (I was freshly updating a new ipod), I started to load songs in smaller batches so I could make sure I was around to keep the system active and not go into suspend. This worked fine, and the few times it did freeze, it always saved up to, but no further then, the last completed "update". However, this last time...it erased everything off the pod (about 15 gigs of audio data). The iPod did not reset as all of it's presets and custom configurations are still set, it's just missing ALL data, including it's assigned, "Name". It used to be a variation of my name, now it just calls utself, "iPod" as the name in the about section.
Possible problem definition
This sure sounds like "my system was stable until I added additional 512 memory chip, now crash all the time". Try taking chip out, or run memtest86+ diagnostic. Memory is very complex today and getting different brands to work together well is unusual.
Same ``ACK'' problem
I just recently saw my kernel issue this message. I run off a 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) with Gentoo too, but do not use a USB keyboard or mouse. A few times the system has just frozen and blinked the keyboard's CAPS and SCROLLLock lights without displaying the message - the system being frozen, Xorg must have left it in screenblanked mode or something, so I did not see the error message. But for some reason, I saw the same keyboard lights flashing and frozen-ness symptons with the error message on a console (which is better than not seeing the error message).
Some people say (above) it may be USB affected: I have only a Bluetooth dongle connected to my USB port
Some above said it may be SATA: I do run my DVD+/-rw... drive off of SATA, so I think I may try the kernel option people said would make SATA stop panicing or something.
New test methodology for you
1) Get recent/inexpensive motherboard
2) Get recent kernel
3) Install Linux
4) Perform stress testing
5) Conclude you have a reliable system (OS + hardware)
6) Use system for normal operation
On instability, change hardware/Linux kernel and repeat until stable system is achieved. Add things like USB Bluetooth dongle to a proven, stable system only.
Sounds like your current methodology is:
1) Get recent/inexpensive motherboard
2) Install Linux
3) Use system for normal operation
4) Experience instability, unable to determine cause since it could be hardware, unfinished kernel module, kernel misconfiguration, distro hardware detection not loading correct modules, ...
isa0060/serio spurious ACK
I had the exact same fault ,and have had it before
I found this mostly occurs with ALI chipset hardware
that is communicating with Intel SMB primary controllers.
I found disabling the serial port provides an immediate solution.
Havent yet changed the source files and recompiled
to include most ALI chipsets calls.
Oh i dont like ALI chipsets,brings back bad memories
from the first introduction of such a few years ago.