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Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems



On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:41, Nick Hastings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    in an ongoing saga trying to get usb and acpi working correctly on
> my Fujitsu LOOX T93c (Japanese cousin of the P2040), I compiled and
> booted linux-2.6.0-test1. 
> 
> I read [1] and made sure I had CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y,
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y.
> 
> The machine booted with a blank console and eventually X came up.
> However neither the keyboard nor the inbuilt pointer were responding.

I had a similar problem. I was, however, trying to build a purely
modular kernel in the process so I kind of shot myself in the foot. :)
Here are the module names that I need to load for keyboard support. You
can find the appropriate items in the config and set them to Y if you'd
prefer.

kernel/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.ko
kernel/drivers/input/serio/serio.ko
kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko

I think that's all of them. Just in case, here's a list of my currently
loaded modules:

demonbane@Gollum:/lib/modules/2.6.0-test1/kernel/drivers$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_maestro3           21316  2
snd_ac97_codec         48420  1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm                85860  2 snd_maestro3
snd_page_alloc          7748  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              21444  1 snd_pcm
snd                    42372  7
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6944  1 snd
evdev                   7616  1
psmouse                12680  0
i8042                   7808  0
atkbd                   6660  0
serio                   4932  3 psmouse,i8042,atkbd
r128                   90636  2
hid                    30496  0
nfs                    91728  1
af_packet              12712  2
uhci_hcd               29616  0
ohci_hcd               16288  0
ehci_hcd               22180  0
usb_storage            27264  0
usbcore                97276  7
hid,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usb_storage
scsi_mod               62364  1 usb_storage
3c59x                  35912  0
cpuid                   1824  0
microcode               4824  0
msr                     2176  0
apm                    16004  2
nfsd                   92912  8 [unsafe]
exportfs                5024  1 nfsd
lockd                  58576  3 nfs,nfsd,[unsafe]
sunrpc                118728  5 nfs,nfsd,lockd
rtc                    10260  0
unix                   22640  547


Unfortunately I don't have access to the computer that I used to compile
the kernel at the moment, so I can't attach the .config right now. I do
know that the only things in my config that COULD be loaded as modules
but weren't were the base IDE support and my root fs driver (reiserfs).
Everything else was built as a module.

I'm running 2.6 on the machine that I'm writing this with, with X,
Gnome, Evolution, and all of my other favorite apps up and running.
Mouse support was a bit tricky, but some quick googling turned up some
answers. Unfortunately, it's quite obvious to me that 2.6 isn't quite
ready, so I'm most likely going to be going back to 2.4.21 for the time
being.

> I tried ssh'ing into the machine, but was unable to obtain a shell. I
> think here was an error message about tty allocation... I guess I
> should reboot, try again and take down the exact error.

This is strange. I can ssh into my computer, and everything works fine.
The keyboard is just dead. Once I'm in and have a login shell going over
ssh, I use that to load the necessary modules for my keyboard support.

> BTW, my usb mouse worked with 2.6.0-test1, so I really want to pursue this.

Getting a USB mouse to work with 2.6 is extremely easy as the whole USB
input interface has been much improved. Unfortunately, the rest of the
input methods have all been made considerably more complicated. (Though
it is quite understandable.) Getting a PS/2 mouse to work is
considerably more difficult, and getting a touchpad to work is even
worse.

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