keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels

keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels

[Matt Pharr]

(I've had this problem with both 2.5.39 and 2.5.45; haven't tried any other
versions.)

After 2.5 boots, my keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized (it's an
old-style one plugged into the keyboard port, not a USB keyboard).
Everything is fine up to the login: prompt, but then any key I hit doesn't
cause anything to happen (including ctrl-alt-del).

I have tried booting with "i8042_direct=1" on the kernel command line (as
suggested in another thread about other keyboard problems), and that didn't
help, and I have tried plugging in a plain old Dell keyboard instead of the
Logitech iTouch I've got plugged in now.  Neither of those helped.  I also
tried building without SMP support, and that didn't change the situation
either.

This is on a home-built machine, Asus A7M266-D motherboard, dual athlon
1900MPs, etc.

I don't think I did anything dumb in the configuration step--I used my
working 2.4.19 .config file, did a 'make oldconfig', and answered questions
in conservative ways.  In particular, I do have CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD set
properly:

#
# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE_INPORT is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_LOGIBM is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_PC110PAD is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y
# CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is not set

Any thoughts about how to debug further?  I fear that I've forgotten
something obvious, but can't think of anything else to try.

thanks,
-matt

Re: keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:17:04AM CET, I got a letter,
where Matt Pharr <matt@pharr.org> told me, that...
..snip..
> After 2.5 boots, my keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized (it's an
> old-style one plugged into the keyboard port, not a USB keyboard).
> Everything is fine up to the login: prompt, but then any key I hit doesn't
> cause anything to happen (including ctrl-alt-del).
..snip..
> I don't think I did anything dumb in the configuration step--I used my
> working 2.4.19 .config file, did a 'make oldconfig', and answered questions
> in conservative ways.  In particular, I do have CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD set
> properly:
> 
> #
> # Input Device Drivers
> #
> CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
> CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
> # CONFIG_MOUSE_INPORT is not set
> # CONFIG_MOUSE_LOGIBM is not set
> # CONFIG_MOUSE_PC110PAD is not set
> # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
> # CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
> CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y
> # CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is not set

Try to answer yes to the Serial i/o support (under Input device support) and
then enable support of the i8042 PC Keyboard controller.

Making the keyboard configuration under 2.5.x more obvious is currently in the
process of discussion.

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Re: keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels

[Matt Pharr]

Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:17:04AM CET, I got a letter,
> where Matt Pharr <matt@pharr.org> told me, that...
> ..snip..
>> After 2.5 boots, my keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized (it's an
>> old-style one plugged into the keyboard port, not a USB keyboard).
>> Everything is fine up to the login: prompt, but then any key I hit doesn't
>> cause anything to happen (including ctrl-alt-del).
> ..snip..
>> I don't think I did anything dumb in the configuration step--I used my
>> working 2.4.19 .config file, did a 'make oldconfig', and answered questions
>> in conservative ways.  In particular, I do have CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD set
>> properly: [...]
>
> Try to answer yes to the Serial i/o support (under Input device support) and
> then enable support of the i8042 PC Keyboard controller.

Hmm, I didn't have that set before, but setting it and rebuilding doesn't
make things better, with or without the 'i8042_direct=1' flag at boot-time.
(I've rebuilt it all twice now, with an extra 'make clean' in the middle,
just to be sure.)

bash-2.05a# grep SERI !$
grep SERI .config
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y
# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set

Any other ideas?

> Making the keyboard configuration under 2.5.x more obvious is currently in the
> process of discussion.

Sounds good.  I'm guessing that I missed some other important config option
here.  Perhaps someone could send me their .config file, I can enable what
extra stuff I need (xfs, etc), and I can then figure out what else I needed
to enable?

thanks,
-matt
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Re: keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels

[Matt Pharr]

Thanks to Adam J. Richter, who was clever enough to figure out that
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD wasn't set correctly in my .config file.  I have no
idea how I missed that when I was grepping through trying to figure out
what else I needed to set.  Sorry for the trouble.

-matt

Matt Pharr <matt@pharr.org> writes:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
>> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:17:04AM CET, I got a letter,
>> where Matt Pharr <matt@pharr.org> told me, that...
>> ..snip..
>>> After 2.5 boots, my keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized (it's an
>>> old-style one plugged into the keyboard port, not a USB keyboard).
>>> Everything is fine up to the login: prompt, but then any key I hit doesn't
>>> cause anything to happen (including ctrl-alt-del).
>> ..snip..
>>> I don't think I did anything dumb in the configuration step--I used my
>>> working 2.4.19 .config file, did a 'make oldconfig', and answered questions
>>> in conservative ways.  In particular, I do have CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD set
>>> properly: [...]
>>
>> Try to answer yes to the Serial i/o support (under Input device support) and
>> then enable support of the i8042 PC Keyboard controller.
>
> Hmm, I didn't have that set before, but setting it and rebuilding doesn't
> make things better, with or without the 'i8042_direct=1' flag at boot-time.
> (I've rebuilt it all twice now, with an extra 'make clean' in the middle,
> just to be sure.)
>
> bash-2.05a# grep SERI !$
> grep SERI .config
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y
> # CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
> # CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>> Making the keyboard configuration under 2.5.x more obvious is currently in the
>> process of discussion.
>
> Sounds good.  I'm guessing that I missed some other important config option
> here.  Perhaps someone could send me their .config file, I can enable what
> extra stuff I need (xfs, etc), and I can then figure out what else I needed
> to enable?
>
> thanks,
> -matt