Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I cannot>even login. I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected. I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things broke.You can find more kernel versions on snapshot.debian.org [1]. For instructions on how to install packages from snapshot.d.o, see [2]. You should also try whether the problem can be reproduced using an upstream kernel, so we are sure the issue is not a result of a configuration change in Debian's kernel.
I tested some intermediate kernels... I did so by downloading 3 deb files and installing them with dpkg -i (instead of the full snapshot in apt sources). E:g.
linux-bootwrapper-5.8.0-3_5.8.14-1_powerpc.deb linux-image-powerpc_5.8.14-1_powerpc.deb
linux-image-5.8.0-3-powerpc_5.8.14-1_powerpc.debThe version numbering confuses me a little: so the difference between 5.8.0 and 5.8.14 ? is the first one always x.y.0 so to "identify" the x.y series?
Anyway, we know current 5.9 is broken. - 5.8.0/5.8.14 : broken - 5.8.0/5.8.7 : broken - 5.7.0 /5.7.17-1 : worksI wanted to try something intermediate, but 5.8.3 apparently was built only for PPC64 and not PPC.
I also tried starting X11... and noticed that keyboard there wasn't working as well as the touchpad, so both internal devices are non functional.
Riccardo