Re: Possible Bug: 2.4.14 USB Keyboard

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > Do you have the keybdev module loaded? Also, don't load the usbkbd
> > module, if you load hid ...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Vojtech Pavlik
> > SuSE Labs
> 
> There is a small problem with this approach: users have no clue
> how to control what modules are loaded, hotplug loads whatever
> was built (and recorded in modules.usbmap), and some users
> have keyboards that plainly refuse to work with hid, therefore
> vendors have to build both modules.
> 
> See this little gem, for instance:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55878
> 
> I suspect some distributions can get away with "load the right
> module" approach because their userbase is so small and technical
> that they do not hit these cases often. I think something needs
> fixing in hid.

Interesting. Could you by any chance try to run the 'evtest' program (i
can send it to you if you don't have it handy) on the /dev/input/event
device created for this keyboard? And/or dmesg with DEBUG enabled in
hid-core.c? Also, latest kernels should make even the extra keys of this
keyboard work ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs