On 4/21/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/21/07, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/21/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My son got a new, fancy Razer gaming keyboard for his birthday today. > > The keyboard works in grub so I can choose Windows or Linux. It works > > fine in Windows but once Gentoo is booted it does nothing. > > <SNIP> > > > Have you installed hotplug? iirc, it's still required to load up the likes > of USB peripherals you state. > > # esearch ^hotplug$ > * sys-apps/hotplug > Available versions: 20030805-r2 20030805-r3 20040105 20040401 > ~20040920 20040923 20040923-r1 20040923-r2 > Homepage: > http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net > Description: USB and PCI hotplug scripts > > -- > - Mark Shields Humm....OK - I thought that both hotplug and coldplug were depreciated by udev. I see that I can emerge hotplug but it tells me to use coldplug. When I try to emerge coldplug it's blocked by udev. I emerged hotplug and started it but it still doesn't do anything with lsusb and the keyboard itself doesn't do anything on the system yet. Sector9 ~ # lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1532:0101 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 1.1 Hub Bus 002 Device 014: ID 1532:0102 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Sector9 ~ # /etc/init.d/hotplug start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] Sector9 ~ # lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1532:0101 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 1.1 Hub Bus 002 Device 014: ID 1532:0102 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Sector9 ~ # I really suspect the issue here is that the system - maybe udev? - doesn't know these devices are keyboard and mouse. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
It's been a while since I've used anything that required any sort of hotplugging, so it was just a suggestion. Looking again now, have you enabled CONFIG_USB_HID (USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support)? The help for that states: CONFIG_USB_HID: Say Y here if you want full HID support to connect keyboards, mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices to your computer via USB. You also need to select HID Input layer support (below) if you want to use keyboards, mice, joysticks and the like ... as well as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and monitor control devices. You can't use this driver and the HIDBP (Boot Protocol) keyboard and mouse drivers at the same time. More information is available: <file:Documentation/input/input.txt>. -- - Mark Shields
