2.5.x keyboard oddities

2.5.x keyboard oddities

[J.P. Morris]

The other day I finally got a 2.5 kernel (2.5.13) to compile and boot.
One of the major stumbling (crashing) blocks seems to be DEVFS, so I
simply disabled it and booted the kernel.

The system appears to have come up completely now, except for the
keyboard which is totally frozen throughout the entire boot process.

I don't have another PC but I might try and get my Psion Series 5
to act as a VT100 terminal and go in through serial.

The keyboard is a bog-standard AT 102 keyboard, attached through a
AT/PS2 converter to an ABIT KT133 ATX motherboard.. no USB stuff.
Keyboard is turned on in the input devices option in kernel config.
But it's utterly dead: even ALT-SYSRQ-B.  Is this normal?

-- 
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=-  doug@it-he.org
Fun things to do with the Ultima games            http://www.it-he.org
Developing a U6/U7 clone                          http://ire.it-he.org
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Re: 2.5.x keyboard oddities

[Tomas Szepe]

> [J.P. Morris <jpm@it-he.org>]
> The other day I finally got a 2.5 kernel (2.5.13) to compile and boot.
> One of the major stumbling (crashing) blocks seems to be DEVFS, so I
> simply disabled it and booted the kernel.
> 
> The system appears to have come up completely now, except for the
> keyboard which is totally frozen throughout the entire boot process.
> 
> I don't have another PC but I might try and get my Psion Series 5
> to act as a VT100 terminal and go in through serial.
> 
> The keyboard is a bog-standard AT 102 keyboard, attached through a
> AT/PS2 converter to an ABIT KT133 ATX motherboard.. no USB stuff.
> Keyboard is turned on in the input devices option in kernel config.
> But it's utterly dead: even ALT-SYSRQ-B.  Is this normal?

1) Try booting with 'acpi=off'. It's broken for a number of systems
(does precisely what you've described) and no official update is
available as of yet. Alternatively, you can try to apply the most
recent ACPI patch from [1].

2) Make sure you've enabled core input support and userland keyboard
interface (CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV).

T.


[1] http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/

Re: 2.5.x keyboard oddities

[rddunlap]

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

| > [J.P. Morris <jpm@it-he.org>]
| >
| > The keyboard is a bog-standard AT 102 keyboard, attached through a
| > AT/PS2 converter to an ABIT KT133 ATX motherboard.. no USB stuff.
| > Keyboard is turned on in the input devices option in kernel config.
| > But it's utterly dead: even ALT-SYSRQ-B.  Is this normal?
|
| 1) Try booting with 'acpi=off'. It's broken for a number of systems
| (does precisely what you've described) and no official update is
| available as of yet. Alternatively, you can try to apply the most
| recent ACPI patch from [1].
|
| 2) Make sure you've enabled core input support and userland keyboard
| interface (CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV).

Under "Input device support", you should also enable
CONFIG_SERIO (Serial I/O support).

-- 
~Randy

Re: 2.5.x keyboard oddities

[J.P. Morris]

On Sun, 5 May 2002 14:47:04 +0200
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> wrote:

> > [J.P. Morris <jpm@it-he.org>]
> >
> > The system appears to have come up completely now, except for the
> > keyboard which is totally frozen throughout the entire boot process.
> 
> 1) Try booting with 'acpi=off'. It's broken for a number of systems
> (does precisely what you've described) and no official update is
> available as of yet. Alternatively, you can try to apply the most
> recent ACPI patch from [1].

Thanks, turning off ACPI fixes it.


-- 
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=-  doug@it-he.org
Fun things to do with the Ultima games            http://www.it-he.org
Developing a U6/U7 clone                          http://ire.it-he.org
d+++ e+ N+ T++ Om U1234!56!7'!S'!8!9!KA u++ uC+++ uF+++ uG---- uLB----
uA--- nC+ nR---- nH+++ nP++ nI nPT nS nT wM- wC- y a(YEAR - 1976)