From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161017AbWBYQ2d (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:28:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964775AbWBYQ2d (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:28:33 -0500 Received: from correo.gobiernodecanarias.org ([82.150.2.66]:63388 "EHLO yaiza.gobiernodecanarias.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964774AbWBYQ2c (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:28:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:28:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Lucas Quintana Rodriguez Subject: keyboard and keycodes at boot time To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3066031b9b.31b9b30660@canarias.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en X-imss-version: 2.038 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:66.18745 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:2 C:4 M:4 S:4 R:4 (0.1500 0.1500) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've been trying to implement fbsplash on my computer; as you might be concerned, this allows the user to specify background and *silent* images to be shown at boot-time. The nowadays oficially unmaintained Bootsplash, used to work on my laptop back when I used 2.4.18. Now that I've switched to 2.6.10, can notice how things has changed dramatically within the keyboard, n_tty or related kernel layers. The kernel says this is about my keyboard: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 But even when I've got event interface compiled into my kernel (together with event debugging), I'm not able to catch any key-press event till the keyboard's been recognized by the input driver in this case. I'm wondering whether is it possible at all to revert the situation so I can catch again key-press events at boot-time, and still comply with the actual kernel architecture as of 2.6.10. I would really appreciate if someone could point me on where to start from, or what to do about this. Kind Regards,