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#1 2009-06-30 10:07:20

Doehni
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From: Germany
Registered: 2007-05-19
Posts: 175

Keyboard only in Safe mode

I have searched for a while, but didn't really find anything helpful....

Since the upgrade to kernel-2.6.29 (and 2.6.30) my keyboard works very odd.

When booting the normal kernel image, the keyboard doesn't work 99% of the time. Not working kernel wise (already during startup).
The PC starts fine, but the keyboard doesn't react. Mouse in X works, so I can shut down properly.

Starting my box in Safe kernel mode, everything works fine. It even starts X.

Not posting this in the bugtracker because it could be a configuration error?

My box: Laptop Compaq Evo N1050v (from 2003)

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

What else can I provide?

smile

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#2 2009-07-01 15:55:50

Doehni
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From: Germany
Registered: 2007-05-19
Posts: 175

Re: Keyboard only in Safe mode

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#3 2009-07-03 05:15:47

antarbozi
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Registered: 2009-06-23
Posts: 17

Re: Keyboard only in Safe mode

Have you tried this?

 pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard

Arch 32-bit
PC: Dell Dimension E520 Intel Pentium D 3GHz HDD 320GB SATA RAM 1GB DDR2 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 256MB
Laptop: Dell Studio 15 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz HDD 500GB SATA RAM 4GB DDR2 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB

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#4 2009-07-03 10:36:31

Doehni
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From: Germany
Registered: 2007-05-19
Posts: 175

Re: Keyboard only in Safe mode

Thanks for the answer!
I have installed xf86-input-keyboard.

But the problem is fixed now.

The autodetect script in mkinitcpio didn't recognize the right driver for my keyboard and so the kernel didn't load it. I added the model it to the mkinitcpio modules section and everything works now! (See bug report) smile

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#5 2009-07-03 12:48:12

yomgui
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Registered: 2009-06-30
Posts: 2

Re: Keyboard only in Safe mode

I've just solve my keyboard/mouse issue at start-up thanks to this post.

Here is how I've done :
(You must have sshd running and another computer available)

1. You run your computer (A) with normal kernel image. Your keyboard and/or mouse doesn"t work.
2. With another computer (B) log to your first computer (A) with SSH and launch "mkinitcpio -M > /home/your_user/mkinitcpio.log". Then reboot the first computer (A).
3. At the start-up of the computer (A) launch the fallback image. In a terminal launch "mkinitcpio -M > /home/your_user/mkinitcpio_fallback.log".
4. Do "diff /home/your_user/mkinitcpio.log /home/your_user/mkinitcpio_fallback.log"
5. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add to MODULE section the name of the module(s) given by step 4 (the diff thing)
6. Generate the boot image: mkinitcpio -p kernel26
7. Restart computer (A) and use as usual

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#6 2009-07-04 18:53:27

thegnu
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From: Brooklyn, NY
Registered: 2004-05-04
Posts: 280
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Re: Keyboard only in Safe mode

This may reveal more about me than I'd like, but I was having weird issues with my USB keyboard, and it was solved by unplugging it and plugging it back in somewhere between POST and the grub menu while I was following yomgui's steps.  So try that, too. smile


fffft!

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