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HeinB777

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] No internal keyboard on LG R400 while and after installing

Hi,

I just tried to install Arch 64bit on this machine and everything works as expected - besides the internal keyboard, I had to use an external USB-keyboard to do the install and after install and playing with different HOOKS in the mkcpinitio.conf I still can't get it working.

This is strange because I did install Arch on that machine about 2 years ago and the internal keyboard was working. I did try an old backup and the keyboard is working with an Arch from 2011.

Since there is also no mention about such problems on the R400-wiki I'm running out of ideas. The keyboard controller seems to be i8042 and according to /dev/input/by-path/ seems to be loaded ok and linked to event0.

platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event0

I already tried to append the options

i8042.nomux=1 i8042.reset

at boot time but keyboard remains dead.

Any pointers where to look or what to try? Maybe an older kernel?

TIA,

Heinz

Last edited by HeinB777 (2013-06-07 01:12:37)

HeinB777

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] No internal keyboard on LG R400 while and after installing

After trying various things this seems to be related to the 3.9.x kernel.

The only solutions I found for now is to install a 3.8.x kernel and IgnorePkg linux and linux-headers. With this internal keyboard is ok.

Since this seems to be an upstream bug introduced with 3.9 kernel I mark this thread as solved.

See also here for more information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969550

Last edited by HeinB777 (2013-06-13 01:22:44)