Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 00:25:08 +0100 | From | Petr Baudis <> | Subject | Re: keyboard not recognized with 2.5 kernels |
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Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:17:04AM CET, I got a letter, where Matt Pharr <matt@pharr.org> told me, that... ..snip.. > After 2.5 boots, my keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized (it's an > old-style one plugged into the keyboard port, not a USB keyboard). > Everything is fine up to the login: prompt, but then any key I hit doesn't > cause anything to happen (including ctrl-alt-del). ..snip.. > I don't think I did anything dumb in the configuration step--I used my > working 2.4.19 .config file, did a 'make oldconfig', and answered questions > in conservative ways. In particular, I do have CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD set > properly: > > # > # Input Device Drivers > # > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y > # CONFIG_MOUSE_INPORT is not set > # CONFIG_MOUSE_LOGIBM is not set > # CONFIG_MOUSE_PC110PAD is not set > # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set > # CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set > CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y > CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y > # CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is not set
Try to answer yes to the Serial i/o support (under Input device support) and then enable support of the i8042 PC Keyboard controller.
Making the keyboard configuration under 2.5.x more obvious is currently in the process of discussion.
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