2002-10-05 22:31:51

by sean

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Subject: 2.5.40 - no keyboard

I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO keyboard.

It's a vanilla MS natural keyboard with a small DIN PS/2 connector - not
USB. Works fine with 2.4.19 - even prior 2.5.x's.

I noticed that xconfig Input device support grays out
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD. As a test, I hand edited .config. Still didn't work.


.config is attached. Any help appreciated



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2002-10-05 22:35:37

by Robert Love

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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, sean darcy wrote:

> I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO keyboard.
>
> It's a vanilla MS natural keyboard with a small DIN PS/2 connector - not
> USB. Works fine with 2.4.19 - even prior 2.5.x's.
>
> I noticed that xconfig Input device support grays out
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD. As a test, I hand edited .config. Still didn't work.

You need to enable serio first. Something like this:

CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y

should work.

Robert Love

2002-10-05 23:03:50

by Sebastian Krause

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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard

Robert Love <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, sean darcy wrote:
>> I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO keyboard.
>>
>> It's a vanilla MS natural keyboard with a small DIN PS/2 connector - not
>> USB. Works fine with 2.4.19 - even prior 2.5.x's.
>>
>> I noticed that xconfig Input device support grays out
>> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD. As a test, I hand edited .config. Still didn't work.
>
> You need to enable serio first. Something like this:
>
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
>
> should work.

I had the same problem (no keyboard, but I had this problem with all
prior 2.5.x) as Sean, although I had the correct configuration as
you show above. It seems that this problem has something to do with
devfs, because everything worked (even X11, which didn't run, too)
well after I disabled it.

Sebastian

2002-10-06 04:16:15

by sean

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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard


Thanks. Worked like a charm. Of course then i had to fix psaux legacy to
make XFree work - and then go back for ps/2 mice.

Obviously I wasn't paying enough attention to lkml to catch this change, but
it certainly seems like a trap for the unwary - and even the somewhat wary.
If I could help, I'd be happy to try to fix the config options to make all
this clearer.

jay

>
> > I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO
>keyboard.
> >
>............
>You need to enable serio first. Something like this:
>
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
>
>should work.
>
> Robert Love




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2002-10-07 17:12:26

by Vojtech Pavlik

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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:21:44AM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>
> Thanks. Worked like a charm. Of course then i had to fix psaux legacy to
> make XFree work - and then go back for ps/2 mice.
>
> Obviously I wasn't paying enough attention to lkml to catch this change, but
> it certainly seems like a trap for the unwary - and even the somewhat wary.
> If I could help, I'd be happy to try to fix the config options to make all
> this clearer.

Send a patch to me. :)

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Vojtech Pavlik
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