Re: X & No keyboard input with new kernels
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:36:01AM -0400, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> I recently did a woody net install on my first generation tibook (booting
> the installer from OF...). I never had luck too much luck with the X in
> debian, but it worked fine for me in yellow-dog 2.1 & 2.2. But since I
> would much rather run woody than yd, I started playing with it last night,
> and was able to get a little further into it. I can get some sort of X to
> start with the fbdev driver, but only 8 bit color. 15 & 16 croak on me.
> I noticed that the yellow dog conf was using the ati driver, but I can't
> get any color depth to work with X in debian.
>
> So I figured maybe my kernel was missing something. i386 kernel compiling
> doesn't bother me in the least, but I'm not too comfortable with ppc
> hardware, so I grabbed a Ben H. kernel from ppckernel. I also copied the
> 2.4.18xxx kernel & modules from the yd side over & set both up. However,
> when I booted either of them, I had no keyboard input. (I have no kernel
> parameters for either through append in yaboot.conf...)
>
Most likely the linux keycodes change:
www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
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