Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Sunday 06 June 2004 04:37 am, Sau Dan Lee wrote:
> >>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:
> 
>     >> You don't tell any kernel about that... it is the bootloader
>     >> you are talking to. And that one may very well have integrated
>     >> kbd support.
> 
>     Valdis> So GRUB knows about keyboards, lets you type in the
>     Valdis> "init=/bin/bash", it loads the kernel, the kernel launches
>     Valdis> init, /bin/bash gets loaded 
> 
> If  init can  launch /bin/bash  (actually,  it lauches  getty in  most
> setups), why can't it start the userland keyboard driver daemon?
>

Init does not start bash, in the case above bash started by the kernel
_instead_ of init. The only thing you have is bash. No regular init scripts
will be executed, nothing.
 
 > Back  in the  old days  before the  introduction of  /etc/rc.d/, every
> daemon was started from by init.
> 
> 
>     Valdis> - and /bin/bash can't talk to the keyboard because the
>     Valdis> userspace handler hasn't happened.  
> 
> As soon as the daemon is  running, /bin/bash can talk to the keyboard.

But nothing has started driver (no scriprs were run, remember?) so it's not
running and bash can't get keyboard input.
 
-- 
Dmitry