here we go again with the same problem...
I bagging the team to check out what's wrong with Asus p4s800
Please!!! Orz

2010/5/14 Anthony Bodle <email address hidden>

> I also have the same problem with an Asus P4S800 mobo when just running
> off a 10.04 LTS CD, that I burned myself.
>
> My keyboard and mouse nearly always freeze by the time the desktop comes
> up.  On the rare occasions they are not frozen immediately, when I touch
> the keyboard I get the "stuck Key" effect in that the key I tapped once
> produces the same character all the way across the input field, and then
> the system hangs with frozen mouse and keyboard.  Of course I cannot
> look into the logs to see what has happened as I have no control over
> the system by then.
>
> A bit of background if it will help.  I had experimented with an old
> 8.04 CD from Canonical, and on all my systems it worked fine just
> running off the CD.  So I downloaded the recent 10.04 and burned a CD
> with high expectations and tried running it off the CD on the same
> systems.
>
> It works fine on an ancient Compaq P2
> It fails on an Asus A7V600-X / Nvidia GeForce giving me a screen full of
> fine grained coloured specks
>
> It fails on my test machine an Asus P4S800 / Nvidia Geforce with the
> symptoms described in para 2.
> On this test machine I tried the "Troubleshooting ACPI and APIC Problems"
> set out in Documentation / ReschedulingInterupts with the following results.
>
> acpi=off runs ok but one cpu only
> nolapic  runs ok but one cpu only
> noapic  runs ok both cpus
> acpi=noirq runs ok both cpus
>
> I then proceeded to install it on my hard disk using the acpi=noirq
> option in the installer, dual boot with Windows that was already on the
> machine.  The install ran ok, on reboot I get the OS selection screen,
> but when I choose Ubuntu it boots up and I am back with frozen mouse and
> keyboard.  So presumably I need to add an option to the boot loader as a
> workaround?
>
> Given my early success with 8.04 I was not expecting this much
> difficulty.  Windows works fine on all these machines.
>
> Let me know if I can help in any way.
> Cheers
> Anthony  (in the UK)
>
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> mouse and keyboard don't work with motherboard ASUS p4s800
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577671
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> Bug description:
> I had use many way to install ubuntu 10.04,like install form CD、Install
> form text mode、update form 9.10 to 10.04
>
> but the problem is always the same:when it turn into ubuntu 10.04's
>  GUI,the mouse and keyboard won't work anymore.No matter using ps/2 or usb .
>
> For example:At first I was using ubuntu 9.10,the mouse and keyboard are
> work fine.But when I use update manager to update the system to ubuntu
> 10.04,the mouse and keyboard will no longer working.
>
> And the same problem is happened when I use cd to install,every time when
> monitor comes to graphic install scenes,the mouse and keyboard won't work
> anymore.
>
> I have search the article,and I found that the same problem has been report
> on Bug #577183,but my situation is worser,I can't do anything on system,all
> my io device just can't work,so there is no way I run any command from a
> Terminal,like apport-collect -p linux 577183.
>
> Please,now I am wondering if I can use any further new version of
> ubuntu,pleass help us out.
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