After an install from stage 1 off the 1.1a ISO, everything seems fine, keyboard works in grub boot menu, rest of booting works (can't see any errors), keyboard does not work. As the keyboard doesn't work I can't log in to read dmesg or any of the logs. Even the num lock and caps lock lights get stuck where they were. I've tried 2 complete installs and several different kernel sources (gentoo- sources and the sun xfs kernel), and numerous different kernel configs, and the problem remains the same.
My hardware is as follows: Epox 8KHA+ motherboard Athlon XP 1600+ 768Mb ddr ram usb mouse (cypress semiconductors) standard ps/2 keyboard sound blaster vibra 128 sound card netgear fa310tx network card geforce 2GTS agp graphics card atapi cdrom 2 40gig seagate barracude iv hard drives 1 60gig ibm gxp60 dethstar hard drive (intermittently unreliable, not used to store anything important)
try: # cat /dev/mouse/mice If this gives garbage on the console when you move the mouse and the driver works at kernel level so it would be a matter of your setup. If that does not generate some output your kernel doesn't have support for it. It could be the modules are simply not loaded, so check that first before recompiling the kernel. You can use modprobe to test load the modules you need after which you can add them to /etc/modules.autoload for boot time loading. You'll need support for: input, mousedev, usbcore, usbhid, usbhiddev and usbinput in your kernel or as a module.
Did you see bug 467, is this a duplicate?
No, it's not the mouse, it's the keyboard which does not work. The keyboard is a ps/2 keyboard. The keyboard not working means I can't log in and can't type anything. Unplugging the usb mouse did not make any difference either.
Ok, can you check if you have PS2 mouse support in your kernel?
i'm getting this too. specifically: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) a similar build off vanilla sources gives me back the keyboard.
No, I don't have ps2 mouse support compiled in the kernel, only input/mouse support, usb, usb-uhci, hid support. I'll try the vanilla kernel to see if that fixes it.
building the vanilla-kernel did not help me. compiling vanilla-kernel with ps2 mouse support did not help either.
I have made my keyboard work by removing the 2.4.19 kernel source files, and then compling the 2.4.18 kernel. the 2.4.19 sources seem to be broken for ps2 keyboards.
*** Bug 2621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm a bit confused. Did the vanilla sources work for you or not?
apologies for the confusion, yes, vanilla-sources do work (last time i tried them I still had gentoo-sources emerged and hadn't changed the /usr/src/linux link to point to the vanilla sources, so I didn't actually try them)
Absolutely the same problem as described by Jani Talikka. Gentoo linux 1.1a installed from scratch (stage 1). I used the gentoo-sources to compile the kernel, and the keyboard simply does not work at login prompt, so I can't do anything to see the dmesg. However a quick glimpse at startup shows that there is a problem with the calculation of the module dependancies. I have compiled everything into the kernel except my network driver (ne2k-pci) so this is the only module I have put in /etc/modules.autoload. I have not configured PS2 support, since I don't need it for my mouse and if that is the trivial rookie mistake, please, let me know. Note that I have a USB mouse supported by the compiled kernel (built-in support). What is the version of the source tree? I don't know ( I am writing this from the M$ Win portion of my dual boot machine and can't check right now) but I downloaded it this Thursday. My hardware is as follows: Motherboard LS-K7VAT Duron 800 MHz 384Mb sdram usb mouse (Microsoft Intellimouse) standard ps/2 keyboard ne2k-pci network card ATI RAdeon VE graphics card ASUS 8x DVD ROM 20gig Quantum Fireball LM HDD Please suggest a solution. Should I give up and compile against the vanilla tree?
Off the top of my head, I'd say try disabling ACPI support in your kernel if enabled. It would be helpful if you could grab the /usr/src/linux/.config file from your systems and attach it here.
Created attachment 949 [details] .config file for gentoo-sources-2.4.19r5 keyboard does not work This is my latest attempt with gentoo-sources to get keyboard working, but on boot up, there is a message which flashes past something to do with:timeout AT keyboard not present.
Created attachment 950 [details] .config file for vanilla-sources keyboard works fine this is my .config file which I use with vanilla-sources and the keyboard works great
Try 24.19-r5 with ACPI disabled and see if that works.
Created attachment 957 [details] dmesg output with gentoo-sources-2.4.19r5 I enabled sshd on startup, started the broken kernel, used ssh to login to do a dmesg, and here is the the dmesg from the same build of kernel as the .config attachment 949 [details]. the corresponding dmesg output for the vanilla kernel will follow in the next attachment
Created attachment 958 [details] dmesg output from vanilla-sources 2.4.18 with which keyboard works For comparison this is dmesg output from the vanilla kernel corresponding to the .config file I provided in attachment 950 [details] my next step is to try disabling acpi on the 2.4.19r5 kernel, will keep you posted
gentoo-sources-2.4.19r5 with ACPI disabled works fine. keyboard just works, like it should. should this still be a bug?
Follow the instructions I added to the end of bug 2590 and see if using the new ACPI snapshot solves this problem. If not, then the problem should be sent upstream to the ACPI developers themselves.
Is this still an issue? I'd like to close the bug if the problem's gone in later gentoo-sources.
vanilla-sources 2.4.19 resolves the issue, and I can select ACPI support in the kernel without causing the keyboard to fail. gentoo-sources 2.4.19-r7 worked well when ACPI was deselected. I don't think I've tried gentoo-sources 2.4.19-r7 with ACPI.
This should work find in gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9, I'm closing the bug, please re-open it if the bug still exists in 2.4.19-r9, thanks.
