Subject: Re: Help! No keyboard with latest Kernel!!!
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 10:56:27 MST
I had the same thing happen on my dual-G4 machine; original kernel's fine
but only one cpu, 'smp' kernel boots two cpus but no keyboard.
Rsync down and use the linux-pmac-stable kernel from ppc.linuxcare.com; I
configed it for smp and it works great; should be fine for non-smp, too.
> Ok - since I didn't get any help last posting, I'm trying again ;-)
>
> I _just_ re-reinstalled YDL 1.2 on my Sawtooth AGP G4/450 - worked
> fine. I could boot into linux and run most needed things.
>
> I then ran YUP and pulled down all of the latest updates. Again,
> worked fine - all packages seemed to update.
>
> I _then_ copied the latest kernel vmlinux to my boot partition
> (renaming it vmlinux as needed) - this is the kernel build
> 2.2.17-0.6.1.
>
> Booting to this kernel, my usb keyboard is not recognized; I cannot
> type at the login prompt. If I boot to "install" instead, the install
> program does not recognize my keyboard.
>
> I can fail back to the older kernel, but then all the package
> dependencies fail as expected.
>
> Please help!!! Is there some keyboard file I need to change to get
> the kernel to see my USB keyboard? (This is the standard Apple USB
> keyboard that shipped with the older G4s. I've swapped the hockey
> puck for a Contour 3-button Unimouse.)
>
> Thanks!
> --
> John T. Chapman dreamline@mac.com
> New Address!-------/
-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing jrp@wvi.com
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