Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 11/7/20 3:33 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote> Hi!
As somebody else asked, I booted, attached an USB keyboard and that one works.
Is the keyboard ADB or USB? I see in the dmesg usb related messages.
Whom are you asking here?
Anybody who knows :) But it appears to be USB.
Do we have the same model of powerbook? You said it works for you.
I also have an iBook G4 which I refrained from updateing until now. I
could, by holding the current kernel, just for safety :)
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1666.666000MHz
revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 73.72
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerBook5,7
machine : PowerBook5,7
motherboard : PowerBook5,7 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 17")
pmac flags : 0000001a
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory : 2048 MB
Looks like your keyboard was detected and it's a USB keyboard.
Fine, somebody replied me "off list" citing ADB issues, but that is then
most probably not related.
[ 19.981386] platform regulatory.0: firmware: failed to load regulatory.db (-2)
[ 19.981408] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[ 19.981416] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 19.981424] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
What is this regulatory.db? what firmware could I miss?
That's just for WiFi, unrelated to your keyboard.
Ok! wifi works... but always at my second attempt to pull it up :)
It looks like the internal keyboard kets detected several times...
Are you sure the hardware works flawlessly? This could also indicate a hardware problem.
The keyboard works in GRUB and works with a previous version of the
kernel.... what else can I test and say?
If not, you will have to bisect this issue to find which commit broke your keyboard.
I recommend cross-compiling the kernel from a fast x86_64 machine.
cross-compiling to a debian kernel build but using kernel? I could at
least attempt different kernel releases and make a first bisectino of
versions.
I can also attempt a native compile I don't know how to build & package
a kernel so that it is digested by debian
Riccardo
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