hi gentooers,

i've installed gentoo on another box (3rd) but this time something is wrong.
once booted the system for the first time with its own kernel it won't
accept anything from keyboard.

i had to access from ssh to the box and it seems perfectly working... but
with no keyboard support.

i had such a problem with framebuffer - did forget some option about console
support - but this time everything seem to be set correctly in kernel. what
do you suggest me?

the box is a toshiba satellite A40 with P4 2.8, 512MB, Radeon9000.

any suggestion is appreciated
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

Hekaton Keires enlightened us with:
> i've installed gentoo on another box (3rd) but this time something
> is wrong. once booted the system for the first time with its own
> kernel it won't accept anything from keyboard.

X or console?

> i had such a problem with framebuffer - did forget some option about
> console support - but this time everything seem to be set correctly
> in kernel. what do you suggest me?

Give us more info. You don't tell us anything about the hardware,
kernel configuration, kernel version, if the problem is on the
console, in X or both.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

>>>>> "Hekaton" == Hekaton Keires <remove_this_hekatonkeires@hotmail.com> writes:

Hekaton> hi gentooers, i've installed gentoo on another box (3rd) but this
Hekaton> time something is wrong. once booted the system for the first time
Hekaton> with its own kernel it won't accept anything from keyboard.

I have had similar problems. Either one keypress generates two characters, or
last time only a couple of keypresses generated anything (onto kde's login
dialog). Each time this has happened when I have installed new kernel and it
seems the kernel is gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.). Normal (development-sources)
kernel works fine.

--
Arto V. Viitanen av@cs.uta.fi
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Sciences
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/

in Sybren Stuvel's honest opinion:

> Give us more info. You don't tell us anything about the hardware,
> kernel configuration, kernel version, if the problem is on the
> console, in X or both.
>
> Sybren
> --
> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

unfortunately i do not have lspci outputs; that laptop is out of site... but
another thing i've noticed is that when i boot from cd i have in dmesg
these things

serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0

while booting with new kernel gives me only

serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

entry - such as input does not recognize the keyboard... i thought that
maybe i compiled something modular but everything seems ok... input
configuration is:

$ grep -i input /usr/src/linux/.config
# Input device support
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=m
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set
# Input I/O drivers
# Input Device Drivers
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y

the same of another laptop where keyboard is correctly recognized.
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

Hekaton Keires enlightened us with:
> unfortunately i do not have lspci outputs; that laptop is out of
> site...

So it's a laptop! You never told us that little fact.

> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0

Nice... looks like a serially-connected keyboard.

> i thought that maybe i compiled something modular but everything
> seems ok...

Well, you need to actually load the module before it'll work.

> the same of another laptop where keyboard is correctly recognized.

That doesn't mean anything, unless you're 100% sure the keyboard on
that laptop is connected in the exact same way.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

in Sybren Stuvel's honest opinion:

> Well, you need to actually load the module before it'll work.
>
>> the same of another laptop where keyboard is correctly recognized.

well i suppose that atkbd.c is the part of kernel that should recognize
keyboard and should write below message into klog

"input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0"

in fact from /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c

[...]
if (atkbd->extra) {
atkbd->dev.ledbit[0] |= BIT(LED_COMPOSE) | BIT(LED_SUSPEND) |
BIT(LED_SLEEP) | BIT(LED_MUTE) | BIT(LED_MISC);
sprintf(atkbd->name, "AT Set 2 Extra keyboard");
} else
sprintf(atkbd->name, "AT %s Set %d keyboard",
atkbd->translated ? "Translated" : "Raw", atkbd->set);

sprintf(atkbd->phys, "%s/input0", serio->phys);
[...]

but this part is compiled inside kernel and it is not modular, so i don't
understand why isn't it recognized on boot... and which would be eventually
the module that i need to compile load!

i've also tried to boot with livecd, mount root, chroot, and compile with
genkernel - which probably would take configuration active
from /proc/config.gz - but even this try did not help me.
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

in Hekaton Keires's honest opinion:

> hi gentooers,
>
> i've installed gentoo on another box (3rd) but this time something is
> wrong. once booted the system for the first time with its own kernel it
> won't accept anything from keyboard.
>
> i had to access from ssh to the box and it seems perfectly working... but
> with no keyboard support.
>
> i had such a problem with framebuffer - did forget some option about
> console support - but this time everything seem to be set correctly in
> kernel. what do you suggest me?
>
> the box is a toshiba satellite A40 with P4 2.8, 512MB, Radeon9000.
>
> any suggestion is appreciated
> --
> Hekaton Keires,
> En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

on my toshiba satellite a30-141 this is a problem related to some kind of
incompatibility between serio and acpi parts of kernel.

does exist any patch for this? or maybe toshiba module can compensate
someway?
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

in Hekaton Keires's honest opinion:

> on my toshiba satellite a30-141 this is a problem related to some kind of
> incompatibility between serio and acpi parts of kernel.

when acpi=off
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 116932 XT-PIC timer
1: 52 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 152 XT-PIC eth0
14: 603 XT-PIC ide0
15: 12 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

when acpi=on
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 116932 XT-PIC timer
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
9: 2 XT-PIC acpi
11: 152 XT-PIC eth0
14: 603 XT-PIC ide0
15: 12 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

as you see i8042 seems to vanish when acpi turns on. it seems like nothing
manages irq1... even if in dmesg i can read in both cases:

serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

another strange thing is that i still cannot make mouse work: in fact in
both cases irq 12 for another i8042 is missing.
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.