USB keyboard stopped working

stan goedigi89__e at cox.net
Mon Jun 30 01:20:26 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:05:45 -0700
> stan <goedigi89__e at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I downloaded and recompiled the kernel source RPM for the 2.6.25.6-55 
>> kernel.
>
> I have noted in the past that the fedora kernels statically link the
> things like the usbhid module, perhaps your new kernel didn't do that.
>
> Possibly you should check the kernel config of the custom kernel you
> built against the fedora config (which should be in /boot along with
> the kernel and initrd). You probably only want them to be different
> in the one place where you added support for your dvd drive.
>
Thanks.  You gave me the clue with the usbhid.  That rang a bell.  I 
went back into the .config and found I'd got rid of it.  It is 
recompiling now and should work just fine.

Actually, I wan't to get rid of the functionality that has to be in 
generic kernels, but that I don't need.  Amateur radio,  ISA support, 
etc.  I'll eventually end up with a configuration file that I can apply 
to all future kernels so that I can keep my kernel lean and mean.

For anyone interested, I followed the instructions (mostly) at 
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora and though they were 
written for Fedora 6 they worked just fine for Fedora 9.  The only thing 
that was really different was that instead of copying the rpmbuild 
structure from /usr/src/redhat it can now be installed with a script, 
rpmdev-setuptree.





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