From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261168AbVAAVbk (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:31:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261184AbVAAVbk (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:31:40 -0500 Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.81]:54638 "HELO smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261168AbVAAVbi (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:31:38 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:31:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Roey Katz References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501011631.36884.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 01 January 2005 03:27 am, Roey Katz wrote: > Hello, > > Upon bootup, kernels 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 do not respond to keyboard input > (e.g., I enter a few chars at the prompt but I see nothing). I can SSH > into the system, though, but I don't know what to do from there. I used > the .config from my 2.6.7 kernel, which works properly (I did run 'make > oldconfig'). In all .config files, I have the following: > > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y > CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set > > So that looks OK... I also SSH'd into the system, did a 'cat > /dev/input/event0' and typed on the system's keyboard, but 'cat' > remained silent. Perhaps there is a better way to see if the system is > recognizing the keyboard input (or even seeing the keyboard > itself). I give up.. what am I doing wrong??? > What does /proc/bus/input/devices show? Do you have Synaptics touchpad/ driver in your box? -- Dmitry