Re: 2.5.40 - no keyboard

From: Sebastian D.B. Krause (krause@sdbk.de)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 18:08:29 EST


Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:37, sean darcy wrote:
>> I've built 2.5.40 on a rh8.0 athlon box. It boots up OK, but NO keyboard.
>>
>> It's a vanilla MS natural keyboard with a small DIN PS/2 connector - not
>> USB. Works fine with 2.4.19 - even prior 2.5.x's.
>>
>> I noticed that xconfig Input device support grays out
>> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD. As a test, I hand edited .config. Still didn't work.
>
> You need to enable serio first. Something like this:
>
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
>
> should work.

I had the same problem (no keyboard, but I had this problem with all
prior 2.5.x) as Sean, although I had the correct configuration as
you show above. It seems that this problem has something to do with
devfs, because everything worked (even X11, which didn't run, too)
well after I disabled it.

Sebastian
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