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

["Adi J. Sieker" <adi@sieker.io>]

On 08/05/11 00:24, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> 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.
>
What kernel version do I need? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, so can I apply 
this to a 2.6.32 Ubuntu kernel or do I need a current 2.6.39?

Any ideas if I'll run into problems if I run Ubuntu 10.04 on a 2.6.39 
kernel.

Cheers
    Adi