Keyboard not working in 5.4

Matthew Dillon dillon at backplane.com
Sun Dec 16 13:30:20 PST 2018


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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