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duox7142

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Registered: 2015-10-18

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] PS/2 controller problems even after adding atkbd to hooks

Hello everyone. I can't get Arch to see the PS/2 controller. As directions say on https://www.archlinux.org/news/linux-31 … w-modular/, I've added atkbd to modules in mkinitcpio.conf and ran mkinitcpio, which allows the keyboard to work erratically, only if a PCMCIA Ethernet card is also added (super bizarre).

dmesg shows:

 i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. 

A LiveCD of Ubuntu is able to see the controller, so why can't Arch after adding the hook still not see the controller? I've even custom compiled the kernel.

Edit: updated for clarity

Edit 2: Was finally able to get it to work! With help from IRC I was able to change the IRQ of the PCMCIA controller, which allowed me to get the keyboard to work. They had shared IRQ which my computer did not like. The PCMCIA was moved to 15 via hexcode added kernel parameters.

Last edited by duox7142 (2015-11-02 21:54:16)

p1azm0id

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Registered: 2018-06-21

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Re: [SOLVED] PS/2 controller problems even after adding atkbd to hooks

How did you change the IRQ?

duox7142

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Registered: 2015-10-18

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] PS/2 controller problems even after adding atkbd to hooks

It's been a while since I toyed with the system, but here are my notes. I believe these were kernel parameters; correct me if I'm wrong.

Load atkbd mousedev evdev udev snd-es18xx
enable plug and play bios in custom kernel
pci=irqmask=0xafff