Laptop keyboard does not work

Sat Apr 20 22:15:00 PDT 2024

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 07:15:17AM +0300, Martin Ivanov wrote:
> Hello, Michael,
> thank you very much for your reply. Sorry for not replying to you earlier.
> Actuall, yesterday we solved the problem in the irc chat. Pierre-Alain
> TORET (daftaupe) told me to set kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=3. I now have this
> added to /etc/sysctl.conf and my laptop keyboard works. No need for an
> external USB keyboard any more.

Glad to hear!

> I am not sure if trying the master branch would make this configuration
> unnecessary? So far everything works all right, I finally have a fully
> working DragonflyBSD XFCE desktop.

With the next version of DragonFly, the default will be
kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=12.

To explain, the rcpt_mask is a bit pattern:

* 1: Enable Sysmouse protocol (psm via moused)
* 2: Kbdmux (keyboard multiplexer) 
* 4: Hardware mouse (psm directly via evdev)
* 8: Hardware keyboard (atkbd directly via evdev)

So a value of 12 ("4 bit-or 8") means, that only the evdev events from
the Hardware mouse and Hardware keyboard are passed through.

The value 3 ("1 bit-or 2") means, you use sysmouse protocol and kbdmux.

Another "common" value would be 6 ("2 bit-or 4"), which uses the
keyboard multiplexer with the hardware mouse.

Keep in mind that when you upgrade to the next version, you might have
to tweak the rcpt_mask value and maybe your Xorg conf.

Regards,

  Michael

> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:09???PM Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de> wrote:
> 
> ???
> ???
> Michael Neumann, karu.pruun, users at dragonflybsd.org
> Hello, Michael,
> thank you very much for your reply. Sorry for not replying to you earlier.
> Actuall, yesterday we solved the problem in the irc chat. Pierre-Alain
> TORET (daftaupe) told me to set
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:09???PM Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> My experience with evdev was that X11 does not recognize it as of 6.4, as
> kern.features.evdev sysctl is missing. Still, your keyboard *should* work
> without evdev - I really believe this is a configuration issue. Can you
> please again attach the full xorg.conf file that you are currently using?
> As Peeter mentioned,  you have a typo in your xorg.conf.
> 
> As for evdev: Can you somehow try out the current HEAD revision from git?
> You'd have to recompile the world and kernel :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> Am 20. April 2024 20:18:13 GMT+07:00 schrieb Martin Ivanov <
> marto1980 at gmail.com>:
> Hello, Peter,
> 
> thank you very much for your reply. I did that, but the keyboard still
> doesn't work.
> So long as I see, the libinput and evdev drivers are loaded but that does
> not help, unfortunately.
> I am attaching my current xorg.conf as well as the Xorg.0. log file.
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 9:30???AM karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The standard and preferred way now is to use the evdev input system.
> This means you should use the libinput driver for both keyboard and
> mouse. See the xorg.conf I attached to the previous email thread as an
> example, it has both filled in with the libinput driver; you can just
> copy them over into your xorg.conf. Also ensure you have the following
> packages installed:
> 
> - libinput
> - xf86-input-libinput
> - libevdev
> - py39-evdev
> 
> Note that you have a syntax error ("Keeyboard0" v "Keyboard0") in your
> xorg.conf.
> 
> Best
> 
> Peeter
> 
> --
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:58???AM Martin Ivanov <marto1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > After I installing  Dragonflybsd 6.4.0, my laptop keyboard does not work
> in X, I am using XFCE. dmesg recognizes my keyboard as:
> >
> > atkbdc0: Keyboard controller i8042 port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> > atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0
> >
> > In my xorg.conf, I have:
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > InputDevice "Keeyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> Sans Serif
> Send
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > My experience with evdev was that X11 does not recognize it as of 6.4, as
> > kern.features.evdev sysctl is missing. Still, your keyboard *should* work
> > without evdev - I really believe this is a configuration issue. Can you
> > please again attach the full xorg.conf file that you are currently using?
> > As Peeter mentioned,  you have a typo in your xorg.conf.
> >
> > As for evdev: Can you somehow try out the current HEAD revision from git?
> > You'd have to recompile the world and kernel :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Am 20. April 2024 20:18:13 GMT+07:00 schrieb Martin Ivanov <
> > marto1980 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello, Peter,
> >>
> >> thank you very much for your reply. I did that, but the keyboard still
> >> doesn't work.
> >> So long as I see, the libinput and evdev drivers are loaded but that does
> >> not help, unfortunately.
> >> I am attaching my current xorg.conf as well as the Xorg.0. log file.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 9:30???AM karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> The standard and preferred way now is to use the evdev input system.
> >>> This means you should use the libinput driver for both keyboard and
> >>> mouse. See the xorg.conf I attached to the previous email thread as an
> >>> example, it has both filled in with the libinput driver; you can just
> >>> copy them over into your xorg.conf. Also ensure you have the following
> >>> packages installed:
> >>>
> >>> - libinput
> >>> - xf86-input-libinput
> >>> - libevdev
> >>> - py39-evdev
> >>>
> >>> Note that you have a syntax error ("Keeyboard0" v "Keyboard0") in your
> >>> xorg.conf.
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>> Peeter
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:58???AM Martin Ivanov <marto1980 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Hello,
> >>> > After I installing  Dragonflybsd 6.4.0, my laptop keyboard does not
> >>> work in X, I am using XFCE. dmesg recognizes my keyboard as:
> >>> >
> >>> > atkbdc0: Keyboard controller i8042 port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> >>> > atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0
> >>> >
> >>> > In my xorg.conf, I have:
> >>> >
> >>> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >>> > InputDevice "Keeyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >>> > EndSection
> >>> >
> >>> > Section "InputDevice"
> >>> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> >>> > Driver "kbd"
> >>> > EndSection
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >>> >
> >>> > Best regards,
> >>> >
> >>> > Martin
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>

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Michael Neumann
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