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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

I want to load my modules in the MODULES array in mkinitcpio.conf, so I ran hwdetect --show-modules-order and copy/pasted it into the array (except for pcspkr).

Then I took udev out of my hooks, made the image and turned autoloading off in rc.conf. Then when I boot up my keyboard doesn't work!

So I changed it back for now and it works fine if I just put udev back and turn modautoloading back on in rc.conf.

What module should I load for my regular dell usb keyboard? (I already have usbinput in my hooks array, so don't suggest that )

Thanks.

AngryKoala

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 197

Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

rc.conf
MODULES -->usbhid

pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 1,020

Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

So, can I not load the rc.conf modules in mkinitcpio.conf? Because usbhid is being loaded as far as I know. I swear there are hidden modules that control my keyboard.

zhuqin

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 61

Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

module hid-xxx, which depends on your keyboard.

$ modinfo hid
hid            hid-cherry     hid-gyration   hid-petalynx   hid-tmff
hid-a4tech     hid-chicony    hid-logitech   hid-pl         hid-zpff
hid-apple      hid-cypress    hid-microsoft  hid-samsung    
hid-belkin     hid-dell       hid-monterey   hid-sony       
hid-bright     hid-ezkey      hidp           hid-sunplus

andr3as

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 53

Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

I had exactly the same problem some days ago, i simply enabled mod-autoload again and had a look at `lsmod`.
There I found the hid-cherry module, which was missing from my modules array.

Dieter@be

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Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=keyboard

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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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Re: My usb keyboard doesn't work unless I modautoload

That worked great. I also found some other modules that I needed when I did lsmod. Thanks guys.