From: krause@sdbk.de (Sebastian D.B. Krause)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 01:08:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765wg32mq.fsf@sdbk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033857702.742.4389.camel@phantasy> (Robert Love's message of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 00:50:06 +0200")
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, sean darcy wrote:
>> I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO keyboard.
>>
>> It's a vanilla MS natural keyboard with a small DIN PS/2 connector - not
>> USB. Works fine with 2.4.19 - even prior 2.5.x's.
>>
>> I noticed that xconfig Input device support grays out
>> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD. As a test, I hand edited .config. Still didn't work.
>
> You need to enable serio first. Something like this:
>
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
>
> should work.
I had the same problem (no keyboard, but I had this problem with all
prior 2.5.x) as Sean, although I had the correct configuration as
you show above. It seems that this problem has something to do with
devfs, because everything worked (even X11, which didn't run, too)
well after I disabled it.
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-05 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-05 22:37 2.5.40 - no keyboard sean darcy
2002-10-05 22:41 ` Robert Love
2002-10-05 23:08 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause [this message]
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2002-10-06 4:21 sean darcy
2002-10-07 17:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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