Fedora Core 1.0, kernel-2.6.0-0 & PS2 keyboard problem
Cokey de Percin
fdepercin at sc.rr.com
Wed Dec 24 21:24:39 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 10:46, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:36:49AM -0500, Cokey de Percin wrote:
> > I'm having problems using a ps2 keyboard with the just released 2.6
> > kernel and Core 1.0. I downloaded, configured, compiled & installed the
> > released 2.6.0 kernel (kernel-source-2.6.0-0.1.14.i386.rpm) and
> > everything went smoothly until I tried to login from the 1st console (X
> > is turned off locally) and the keyboard didn't work. Thinking I had
> > done something stupid when I rolled by own kernel, I pulled down a
> > prebuilt kernel (kernel-2.6.0-0.1.14.i686.rpm) and installed it. No
> > change.
>
> any relevant msgs in dmesg output ?
> As you're not averse to building your own kernels, you could try
> flipping the debug switch on in drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
> (line 42, just s/undef/define/)
> That should produce a slew of output as it detects the keyboard/mouse
> and when you hit/release a key. If it actually does spew output,
> then this could be one of the corner cases the new input core doesn't
> handle yet (keyboard handling was completely rewritten, and some
> keyboards don't quite follow the specs it seems), in which case, the
> maintainer of this code (vojtech at suse.cz) would probably like to hear
> about it.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
Ok, I'll do that. Change has been made & kernel is recompiling now.
I'll get the debug output on the way this evening...
Have a great holiday!
Cokey
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