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Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not working at all



On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:09 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:49:48AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> [2009-03-31 23:33:22 CEST]:
> > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:14:12PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > * Gerfried Fuchs [090331 11:49 +0200]
> > > > > 	Hi!
> > > > > 
> > > > >  I'm forwarding this bugreport to the list in the hope that I'm not the
> > > > > only powerpc person having this problem. It would be great if others can
> > > > > confirm the issue - or even a "worksforme". If there is no worksforme I
> > > > > guess raising it back to grave is justified because powerpc is a release
> > > > > architecture.
> > > > 
> > > > I am running a vanilla one at sid with no probs at all. As I know
> > > > udev-0.140 has many changes which may affect your settings?
> > > 
> > > Me too I don't have this problem with the vanilla kernel.
> > 
> >  What do you two mean with vanilla kernel? I'm used to that people refer
> > to unpatched kernels - and usually the versions from kernel.org and
> > *not* the Debian kernels. So if you mean that with vanilla kernel I
> > would ask you to give the mentioned kernel image from unstable a try.
> > 
> 
> With vanilla kernel I meant a kernel compiled from an unmodifed
> linux-2.6 git tree. Upstream without Debian patches.
> 
> I now also tested the Debian package linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc version 2.6.29-2. 
> I can't reproduce your bug with this kernel. The internal keyboard, an externel
> usb keyboard and a bluetooth mouse are working.

Same kernel configuration?

> My machine is a PowerBook5,8.

Same here, and I can't reproduce the problem with vanilla 2.6.29.1
either. But my configuration for this is very different from the Debian
kernels, e.g. no initrd.


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