Keyboard not working in 5.4

Pierre-Alain TORET pierre-alain.toret+dragonflybsd at protonmail.com
Mon Dec 17 06:59:54 PST 2018


Hello,

even though I did write a feedback on IRC, I can answer here too.
With latest commit 0b783d533b7ddc0fe063df1a861ad50c72c2c3fd I have no issue with the keyboard on my laptop anymore.

Regards,

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On Sunday 16 December 2018 22:30, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:

> I have pushed a commit to master and release which disables the FADT probe (it can be turned on again with a tunable).  I just changed the global from 1 to 0.  Please re-test with the latest DragonFly_RELEASE_5_4 sources and tell us if that fixed the issue.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:
>
>> We have a second person with the same problem.  Michael suggests trying to backout commit 131acb0380e93664f106117ebf8ba322a3d1b7c4
>>
>> Basically, start with a 5.4 base (not 5.2), use a usb keyboard temporarily.
>>
>> cd /usr
>> make src-create
>>
>> Make sure you are on the correct release:
>>
>> cd /usr/src
>> git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_5_4
>>
>> Then try reverting the specified commit and rebuild the kernel, install it, reboot, and see if the keyboard works.
>>
>> cd /usr/src
>> git revert 131acb0380e93664f106117ebf8ba322a3d1b7c4
>> (assuming it works)
>> make -j 8 nativekernel
>> make installkernel
>> sync
>> reboot
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 11:20 AM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You are the second person to report this.  Check a few things.  The laptop keyboard is clearly attaching via atkbd in both dmesg's.  The question is why isn't it registering keystrokes.  So lets check whether you are getting interrupts on irq 1.  You can observe this with:
>>>
>>> vmstat -i -v
>>>
>>> The count should normally be non-zero, and when you hit a key on the laptop keyboard, the count should increase by 2 each time.
>>>
>>> -Matt
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