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SubjectRe: Patch?: linux-2.5.33/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c allow SETLEDS to fail
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:51:11AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> I have a computer with an Iwill VD133 motherboard doing
> USB-to-PS/2 keyboard emulation (built into the chipset somewhere)
> for a BTC 7932M USB keyboard. Under this configuration, the
> SETLEDS command in atkbd_probe fails (the first atkbd_sendbyte
> in atkbd_command fails), but the keyboard otherwise works if
> that failure is ignored.
>
> I noticed this when my keyboard stopped working in 2.5.32.
> I have verified that 2.5.31 (and probably all kernels before it)
> also do not set the LEDs on my USB-emulating-PS/2 keyboard.
>
> I cannot say whether the problem occurs with other USB
> keyboards because I don't have one handy.
>
> One cannot run the USB keyboard "natively" via Linux USB on this
> motherboard because the BIOS does not seem to set an IRQ line for the USB
> controller. I've tried booting with "pci=biosirq", and I think I've tried
> all the relevant BIOS menu options, and I'm running the latest BIOS,
> and the VD133 product has been terminated. So the patch does seem to be
> "necessary" to support some configurations, at least for now.

I cannot do that, since then the keyboard identification will give too
many positives.

I assume you have an USB keyboard, and the BIOS emulates a PS/2 keyboard
for non-USB capable OSes.

Well, fix Linux irq router code, instead of damaging the keyboard code.

The mainboard has VIA Apollo Pro133 chipset - it should be fairly easily
possible to change the IRQ routes in the pci-irq.c code for the USB
controller.

> --- linux-2.5.33/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c 2002-08-31 15:05:31.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c 2002-09-09 06:29:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -359,13 +359,13 @@
> #endif
>
> /*
> - * Next we check we can set LEDs on the keyboard. This should work on every
> - * keyboard out there. It also turns the LEDs off, which we want anyway.
> + * Turn off LEDs. This command fails on at least a BTC 7932M USB keyboard
> + * connected to an Iwill VD133 motherboard that is configured to emulate
> + * a PS/2 keyboard via USB.
> */
>
> param[0] = 0;
> - if (atkbd_command(atkbd, param, ATKBD_CMD_SETLEDS))
> - return -1;
> + atkbd_command(atkbd, param, ATKBD_CMD_SETLEDS);
>
> /*
> * Then we check the keyboard ID. We should get 0xab83 under normal conditions.


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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