Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:59:58 +0000 (UTC) | From | Roey Katz <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup |
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> Dmitry, >> >> I do not have a Synaptics touchpad on this computer nor do I have the >> driver installed (though all I know is 'grep SYN .config' returned >> empty, so I may be mistaken). Does the Synaptics driver mess with the >> keyboard at all? >> > > Not exactly - Synaptics X driver "grabs" the device it uses so other > processes do not get any data from the touchpad when its active. When > keyboard and mouse initialization got swapped around many people who > were specifying /dev/input/event0 as a device were in for surprise as > the driver "grabbed" keyboard making it impossible to type.
Perhaps the wacom driver is doing some of its own grabbing. Does the evdev device matter to the console (i.e., a pty)?
> > [snip] > > Does the keyboard work when you are not in X (like when booting to > runlevel 3)? It looks like everything is detected correctly...
That's the thing -- the keyboard is unresponsive right from the login prompt.
- Roey | |