From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: evdev keyboard driver stopped working after upgrading from Kernel 2.6.33-rc8 to 2.6.33 (official release)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:47:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267688823.7029.8.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40a4ed591003032322l4ad2dc00sd3de718b5a76089b@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:22 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:45 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
>
> >> I am always updating to the latest rc Kernel Release, that Linus shares via Git.
> >>
> >> I also upgraded to the latest stable kernel version after rc-8, to
> >> 2.6.33. But since I am on 2.6.33 my Xorg evdev-Driver stopped working.
> >> I can hit any key on the keyboard, but nothing will happen. The mouse
> >> and the graphics are just fine and work well.
> >>
> >> I have an Asus Eeepc 1101HA, with Gentoo and the psb-kmod driver compiled.
> >>
> >> Xorg starts just fine, does not crash but the keyboard does not react.
> >>
> >> Everything worked fine on 2.6.33-rc8.
> >>
> >> Any hints what changed from 2.6.33-rc8 to 2.6.33 stable that made my
> >> keyboard stop reacting?
> >>
> >> Let me know and I will test.
> >
> > I don't see any obvious candidates rc8->final. There's _very_ little
> > for input.
> >
> > On the bright side, there are only 225 commits, so a bisection should be
> > almost painless. That's probably your best bet for rapid resolution.
>
> Is there a possibility that something changed between rc2 and final,
> something that would concern the evdev driver or the keyboard input?
> It seems that /dev/input/event5 where the keyboard is found does not
> pass anything on to Xorg.
Dunno about rc2, I looked rc8->final. Not much there.
> I did not change anything else on my system except upgrading the kernel.
I'd bisect it asap.
-Mike
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 20:45 evdev keyboard driver stopped working after upgrading from Kernel 2.6.33-rc8 to 2.6.33 (official release) Zeno Davatz
[not found] ` <1267673633.6416.7.camel@marge.simson.net>
2010-03-04 7:22 ` Zeno Davatz
2010-03-04 7:47 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2010-03-04 7:55 ` Zeno Davatz
2010-03-04 8:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-03-04 8:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-03-04 8:18 ` Zeno Davatz
2010-03-04 8:27 ` Zeno Davatz
2010-03-04 8:34 ` Zeno Davatz
[not found] ` <40a4ed591003040126t751b9ee5o94c2cd3ce2d5f58b@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-04 9:28 ` Zeno Davatz
2010-03-04 13:25 ` Måns Rullgård
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