Re: PROBLEM: 3.8.0-rc4 keyboard failure at boot

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 12:22:35 EST


On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Brad Tilley wrote:

> See attached. Two dmesgs from the same machine. One from 3.7.3, the
> other from 3.8-rc4 (with a ps2 keyboard). USB keyboards on this machine
> never work with 3.8, but always works with 3.7.
>
> I used an old ps2 keyboard to enter the dm-crypt password. After that,
> the boot process continues and the USB keyboard and mouse become active
> and begin to work. However, USB keyboards do not work when the user is
> prompted to enter the dm-crypt decryption password early in the boot
> process. That's the primary issue.

Are you sure that HID modules are loaded at the time you are being asked
for the dmcrypt password?

In the provided dmesg, I can see

[ 17.106371] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=413c, idProduct=2106
[ 17.106376] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 17.106380] usb 2-1.2: Product: Dell QuietKey Keyboard
[ 17.106382] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Dell
[ 17.115713] input: Dell Dell QuietKey Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input11
[ 17.115968] hid-generic 0003:413C:2106.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell QuietKey Keyboard] onusb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0

i.e. the keyboard gets properly autodeteted, but I have no idea whether
this was before or after dm-crypt password prompt.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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