Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761293Ab1EARtK (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 13:49:10 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:52199 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761273Ab1EARtH (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 13:49:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4DBD9D0D.1080503@sieker.io> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 19:49:01 +0200 From: "Adi J. Sieker" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Neukum CC: USB list , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard recognized as HID keyboard but doesn't work References: <4DBC6FA9.3080008@sieker.io> <201105010953.27052.oliver@neukum.org> In-Reply-To: <201105010953.27052.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3636 Lines: 95 On 01/05/11 09:53, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. April 2011, 22:23:05 schrieb Adi J. Sieker: >> Hello, >> >> the lovely folks from #kernelnewbies suggested I write this mail since >> they are at a loss. >> I recently got a new USB keyboard which works fine in the BIOS and also >> in VBox Windows guests, but not on the host. >> >> The keyboard is a Keysonic KSK-8003 UX product details here: >> http://maxpoint.de/de/products/keyboards.php?pid=1_3_7&we_objectID=1220 >> >> The menu key and the backspace keys do work. The num lock led is on, >> though I can't switch num lock off. >> If I attch the keyboard to a VirtualBox VM running WindowsXP as a guest, >> it works as expected in the VM. > This indicates that it is working on the USB level. > >> I'm running 2.6.32-27-generic #49-Ubuntu. I tried the Ubuntu 10.10 >> LiveCD and that also didn't work. I haven't tried 11.04 yet though. > Do you get anything on the event device? What does udev say when you > plug in the device? > udevadm monitor output is: monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent KERNEL[1304270944.379238] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3 (usb) KERNEL[1304270944.380140] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1304270944.380238] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:060B:0230.0004 (hid) KERNEL[1304270944.389434] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input17 (input) KERNEL[1304270944.389811] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input17/event7 (input) KERNEL[1304270944.389863] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:060B:0230.0004/hidraw/hidraw0 (hidraw) KERNEL[1304270944.389917] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.1 (usb) KERNEL[1304270944.390031] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.1/0003:060B:0230.0005 (hid) UDEV [1304270944.396889] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3 (usb) UDEV [1304270944.398067] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.1 (usb) UDEV [1304270944.398122] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1304270944.400048] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:060B:0230.0004 (hid) UDEV [1304270944.400947] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:060B:0230.0004/hidraw/hidraw0 (hidraw) UDEV [1304270944.401033] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.1/0003:060B:0230.0005 (hid) UDEV [1304270944.408614] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input17 (input) UDEV [1304270944.415928] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input17/event7 (input) one thing I found out is that this keyboard has some special anti ghosting function for some keys. Where you can press multiple keys simultaneously and they are all recognized. This is apparently great for gaming. Which I'm not interested in... Cheers Adi -- Adi J. Sieker Steurentalstr. 2 79252 Stegen mobile: +49 / 178 / 88 5 88 13 tel: +49 / 7661 / 91 92 813 web: http://sieker.io/profile -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/