Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757299Ab2JQOty (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:49:54 -0400 Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]:33697 "EHLO vms173003pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252Ab2JQOtw (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:49:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3603 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:49:52 EDT Message-id: <507EB764.2040105@verizon.net> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:49:24 -0400 From: Gerry Reno User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: Josh Boyer Cc: Sarah Sharp , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michael Spang , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones , Michael Spang , Linux Kernel , Fedora Kernel Team Subject: Re: USB keyboard backlight powering down. References: <20121016152023.GA25506@redhat.com> <20121016165436.GA5140@kroah.com> <20121016173524.GG5378@xanatos> <20121017125538.GA2934@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> <507EAE24.60407@verizon.net> <20121017133151.GB2934@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> In-reply-to: <20121017133151.GB2934@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1945 Lines: 48 On 10/17/2012 09:31 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:09:56AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: >>>> This was the udev bug I was referring to, which I think is causing the >>>> keyboard to have auto-suspend enabled: >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825284 >>>> >>>> udev shouldn't be enabling auto-suspend of USB hids by default, since >>>> many of them don't send a wakeup to come out of suspend when they >>>> should. For example, most USB mice only send a wakeup even when they >>>> are clicked, not when they are moved. That causes the user to sit >>>> there, frustrated, as they move their mouse and wonder why their screen >>>> doesn't unblank. Other keyboards also lose keystrokes, which means if >>>> you pause to compose your thoughts, the first couple letters you type >>>> gets dropped. >>> I know we fixed that bug for F17, F18, and rawhide. I did it myself. >>> I don't think this is udev related, but we'll double check the version. >>> >>> Gerry, are you using udev-182-3.fc17 or newer on your F17 install? >>> >>> josh >>> >> >> >> Installed Packages >> udev.x86_64 182-1.fc17 >> @anaconda-0 >> >> There is an update available to 182-3 but I haven't installed it. Didn't know what it might impact. > Well, it would certainly be good to update to it and see if this bug is > fixed for you. You will probably need to rebuild your initramfs with > the updated udev. > > josh > I updated udev to 182-3 then rebooted and my illuminated keyboard is now functioning properly. Didn't need to rebuild initramfs. Everything appears to be working fine. Gerry -- 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/