[Techtalk] kernel compiled no keyboard not found - toshiba/ slackware 9.1

[Christine Bussman]

Noir wrote:

>>Here's something to try:  when it seems like the
>>keyboard is dead, hit 
>>the up arrow key.  I'm having a similar problem with
>>my notebook.  
>>Sometimes when I boot it, the keyboard doesn't work
>>(kernel 2.6.8.1).  
>>It always starts to work again when I hit the up
>>arrow key, though.  I'm 
>>still working on finding a solution so I don't have
>>to mess with this, 
>>but it makes the computer much more useable than
>>without a keyboard :)
>>    
>>
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>Doesn't work. Do you know what command to use to know
>what kind of keyboard the system using? dmesg? lspci?
>or anything in /proc?
>  
>

Here's a permanent solution that seems to work for the problem I was having:  add the option i8042.reset to grub.conf.  

To answer your question, I think that dmesg gives some information when it detects a keyboard.  Here are a few lines of my dmesg that show what I am talking about:


usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 
14:31:44 2004 UTC).
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64

Another thing you might want to try if the above doesn't work would be 
to use the evdev interface for your keyboard.  Try including it in your 
kernel and see if things are better on the console.  If so, it will 
still take some work getting things to work in X, but it's a starting point.