Re: USB keyboard & mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card
Sorry, all, about the long pause before responding. I really would like to
kick this problem. In the last few days, I have had a chance to look at
things a bit more closely.
One thing I should say is that I am a total newbie to Sun hardware and
OpenBoot, so please keep this in mind.
In response to Martin's message, before I sent the first message, I didn't
really know where to start, so I didn't really DO that much, but I did a lot
of poking around. I ran config-debian and reconfigured the X11 settings in
an attempt to use a PC104 USB keyboard ("PC104" rules) instead of the Sun
(type 6) keyboard ("sun" rules). That did absolutely nothing. Also, I want
to be able to use the USB keyboard in runlevel 3, which I intend to make the
default once everything is running smoothly. I also poked around in
OpenBoot, and I see three entries for the USB board itself, but no devices on
the USB bus, so I am skeptical about the prospects of using OpenBoot to remap
the keyboard and mouse aliases to the USB devices. I also poked around in
the /dev directory (not /proc !), looking for something that looked like the
USB KB & mouse, so that maybe I could mention them in XFree86Config-4.
Again, nothing useful. With the USB 2.0 CD-RW drive attached, I get "Exhibit
#1" below when I run 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices'. I don't see anything
resembling a keyboard or mouse. My kernel version is 2.4.27, compiled from
kernel-source-2.4.27_2.4.27-5_all.deb.
In response to Blars' message, I find the serial console concept intriguing.
Could you point me to a website or two that explain how to set it up, the
necessary cabling required (straight-through vs. crossover, DB9-DB9 or
DB9-DB25, pinouts would be nice), the comm parameters (I think I saw this in
OpenBoot), etc. etc....
In response to Jeremy's message, I re-compiled the kernel 3 times, again, from
kernel-source-2.4.27_2.4.27-5_all.deb. The first time, I tried to compile it
manually (make xconfig, make dep, make, make install, make modules_install),
but that didn't work - I'm not sure how to go about creating the initrd
image. The second and third times, I used the "kernel-package" package, and
everything went great with the compile and the install. The first time, I
set the (relevant) lines in .config (mostly using 'make xconfig', some I had
to do manually) as shown in "Exhibit #2". That didn't work. The second
time, I used the .config parameters shown in "Exhibit #3" below. That didn't
work either.
I just noticed, in the "USB HID" section that I didn't have CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV
set, but I gather from the explanation of it in xconfig (something about
"raw" devices that aren't true HID devices) that it's probably not necessary.
If I'm wrong, please let me know. In all future compiles, I will have this
flag set to "Y".
I also noticed, upon looking at .config in the root source directory after
running make-kpkg, that several parameters were automatically set, as if they
are not optional or are required by some other flag that I still have set.
The parameters that were flipped are shown in "Exhibit #4" below. You might
notice that those were the key options that I was TRYING to nix. After
noticing this, I looked in the top-level "Makefile" and "Rules.make" for
anything which would say that those flags are mandatory. No such luck. Is
there something else I need to do to override these flags? Maybe I need to
nix CONFIG_SUN_CONSOLE, CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO, and CONFIG_SUN_IO as well? Or
maybe just CONFIG_SUN_CONSOLE as it seems to me now? If "flag
interdependency" isn't the issue, where else should I look in order to
override this rather draconian behavior of auto-setting these flags?
BTW, Jeremy, did you do your recompiles on a 2.4 kernel or a 2.6 kernel? I've
been trying to avoid 2.6 kernels for several reasons, but if it is NECESSARY
for this to work, I might reconsider...
Again, all, thanks for bearing with me, and any further info. would be greatly
appreciated.
-Dan
===========================================================
Exhibit #1: 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices'
===========================================================
T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 1
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=280a000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=2808000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 3
B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.04
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.4.27-10.1-dej-usb ehci_hcd
S: Product=PCI device 1033:00e0
S: SerialNumber=02:03.2
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=256ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=059f ProdID=0202 Rev=11.06
S: Manufacturer=LaCie
S: Product=LaCie StudioDrive USB2
S: SerialNumber=11100E00053A4460
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 2 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 98mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=125us
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=32ms
===========================================================
Exhibit #2: .config for second compile
===========================================================
CONFIG_SBUS=y
CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y
CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=m
CONFIG_SUN_MOUSE=m
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SUN_KEYBOARD=m
CONFIG_SUN_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO=y
CONFIG_SUN_IO=y
CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMFS=m
#
# Input core support
#
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT=y
#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=y
# CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
#
# Miscellaneous USB options
#
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set
#
# USB Host Controller Drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI=m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI=y
#
# USB Device Class drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MIDI is not set
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DATAFAB is not set
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ISD200=y
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DPCM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_JUMPSHOT is not set
CONFIG_USB_ACM=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
#
# USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
#
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
# CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV is not set
# CONFIG_USB_AIPTEK is not set
# CONFIG_USB_WACOM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_KBTAB is not set
# CONFIG_USB_POWERMATE is not set
#
# USB port drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_USS720 is not set
===========================================================
Exhibit #3: .config for third compile (other entries same as Exhibit #2)
===========================================================
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
# CONFIG_SBUSCHAR is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_SUN_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_SUN_KEYBOARD is not set
===========================================================
Exhibit #4: .config parameters automatically "flipped" after third compile
===========================================================
CONFIG_SBUS=y
CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y
CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_SUN_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_SUN_KEYBOARD=y
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