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Rattle

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Registered: 2018-08-27

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USB Keyboard stopped working after kernel upgrade to 4.18.3

Anyone else had issues with this kernel version?

The keyboard worked fine in BIOS and grub menus, booting with rescue and emergency boot parameters or "fallback initramfs" didn't help. Using boot params "rescue debug" I saw messages when the keyboard is disconnected and reconnected, but no errors.

   input: SONiX USB Keyboard as /devices/pci...
   redragon 0003:0c45:760B.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [SONiX USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:05:00.0-4/input1

This happened after a package update which included linux upgraded from 4.17.13.arch1-1 to 4.18.3.arch1-1. It was resolved by booting from USB and reverting the linux kernel (and dependencies) from pacman cache, as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_packages

I didn't have any other keyboard here to test with, I'll try the latest kernel when I've time.

Rattle

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Registered: 2018-08-27

Posts: 4

Re: USB Keyboard stopped working after kernel upgrade to 4.18.3

To update - same issue with 4.18.5. I'll try and eliminate other packages, in particular nvidia before I raise a bug.

salafrance

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Registered: 2013-04-17

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Re: USB Keyboard stopped working after kernel upgrade to 4.18.3

I have what seems to be a similar issue. Neither my Logitech nor a Chinese remote work for more than a brief period after reaching the console prompt. Both items work perfectly in another system.

Reverting to the LTS kernel allowed me to boot, run GDM and type this with no problems.

The following is the output from 'lspci -nn | grep USB', under LTS:

00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
00:16.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:16.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
02:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720202 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1912:0015] (rev 02)
03:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720202 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1912:0015] (rev 02)

This is the Logitech keyboard dongle:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver

Have you tried running under LTS?

Update: It's not the kernel.  I'm seeing the same behaviour under LTS.  Oddly, when it works, it seems completely reliable.

Last edited by salafrance (2018-09-03 17:19:46)

Rattle

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Registered: 2018-08-27

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Re: USB Keyboard stopped working after kernel upgrade to 4.18.3

Hi,

That looks like a different issue unfortunately. The issue I had was specific to keyboards with USB Id 0c45:760b, I found https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg57644.html which describes the issue, the fix should be in kernel 4.19