Re: USB keyboard recognized as HID keyboard but doesn't work

[Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 15:59 +0200, Adi J. Sieker wrote:
> On 06/05/11 14:58, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Alan Stern wrote:
> >
> >>> Do you know of a way for me to tell the kernel/usbhid to use interface 1
> >>> and ignore interface 0?
> >>
> >> Well, you can always unbind interface 0 from usbhid -- it corresponds
> >> to the 2-1.1:1.0 file in /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/.  If you do that,
> >> you'll probably find the few keys which _do_ currently work suddenly
> >> stop working.
> >>
> >> But there's nothing to be done immediately about interface 1; usbhid is
> >> _already_ using it.  It just isn't using it correctly.
> >
> > Adi,
> >
> > could you please provide output of
> >
> > 	cat /syse/kernel/debug/hid/<keyboard>/rdesc
> >
> > anytime after the keyboard has been plugged, and
> 
> in /sys/kernel/debug/hid I have two devices for the keyboard. One is 
> 0003:060B:0230.0002 and the other 0003:060B:0230.0003
> 
> attached are the rdesc files for both devices.
> 
> >
> > 	cat /syse/kernel/debug/hid/<keyboard>/events
>  > from the time you press any of the working and non-working keys? (both
>  > cases will be interesting).
> 
> I only get events for the working keys on the *:0002 device.
> All other files were empty after I pressed some keys.
> 
> The events for the working keys are attached in the *.events file.
> I first pressed backspace and then the menu key.

Hi Adi,
 
 I'm not sure about my patch below because of interface one, maybe you
can give it a try.

Thanks,
 -- chf

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Subject: [PATCH] HID: add quirk for Solid Year keyboard ACK231

This patch adds HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT to Solid Year keyboard ACK231
which reports keystrokes from inside a firmware-configuration
interface instead of using its own interface.

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
index 00a94b5..abbace9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@
 #define USB_VENDOR_ID_SKYCABLE			0x1223
 #define	USB_DEVICE_ID_SKYCABLE_WIRELESS_PRESENTER	0x3F07
 
+#define USB_VENDOR_ID_SOLIDYEAR		0x060b
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_SOLIDYEAR_KEYBOARD_ACK231	0x0230
+
 #define USB_VENDOR_ID_SONY			0x054c
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_SONY_VAIO_VGX_MOUSE	0x024b
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_SONY_PS3_CONTROLLER	0x0268
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c
index a8426f1..b099380 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_ETURBOTOUCH, USB_DEVICE_ID_ETURBOTOUCH, HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT },
 	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_PANTHERLORD, USB_DEVICE_ID_PANTHERLORD_TWIN_USB_JOYSTICK, HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT | HID_QUIRK_SKIP_OUTPUT_REPORTS },
 	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_PLAYDOTCOM, USB_DEVICE_ID_PLAYDOTCOM_EMS_USBII, HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT },
+	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_SOLIDYEAR, USB_DEVICE_ID_SOLIDYEAR_KEYBOARD_ACK231, HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT },
 	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_TOUCHPACK, USB_DEVICE_ID_TOUCHPACK_RTS, HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT },
 
 	{ USB_VENDOR_ID_ATEN, USB_DEVICE_ID_ATEN_UC100KM, HID_QUIRK_NOGET },