Your message dated Fri, 8 May 2009 13:07:21 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#521865: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc: keyboard not
working at all
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Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc
Version: 2.6.29-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi!
Upgrading to 2.6.29-1 did cause several problems:
- The keyboard didn't react to any key pressed
- An external usb keyboard didn't react to any key pressed neither
- external mouse did receive power (optical red light was there) but
cursor didn't move
Only thing I could do was use the touchpad on my PowerBook G4, which
which I at least was able to choose the shutdown thing from the gdm
menu.
I guess this is reason enough to call this a RC bug report. Booting
with the "old" kernel did enable my system for using it again.
Thanks.
Rhonda
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93 tools for generating an initramfs
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc suggests:
pn linux-doc-2.6.29 <none> (no description available)
pn mkvmlinuz <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.29-1-powerpc: true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.29-1-powerpc: true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.29-1-powerpc: true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.29-1-powerpc: false
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.29-1-powerpc: true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
true
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
false
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/abort-install-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc/preinst/initrd-2.6.29-1-powerpc:
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--- Begin Message ---
* Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> [2009-04-28 14:30:09 CEST]:
> * Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> [2009-04-20 12:07:24 CEST]:
> > Version: 2.6.29-2
> > * Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> [2009-03-30 17:42:39 CEST]:
> > > Upgrading to 2.6.29-1 did cause several problems:
> > >
> > > - The keyboard didn't react to any key pressed
> > > - An external usb keyboard didn't react to any key pressed neither
> > > - external mouse did receive power (optical red light was there) but
> > > cursor didn't move
I seem to have found a culprit somehow but don't know where it comes
from. 2.6.29 has hid_apple but that module failed to load for me.
modprobe -v told me that it tries to "insmod /lib/.../hid.ko pb_fnmode=2"
but that module doesn't like that parameter so it fails.
Now I'm wondering where that might come from. And strangely it seems to
have hooked itself into /etc/yaboot.conf:
append="hid.pb_fnmode=2"
Now I wonder
a.) how it actually ended up in there (though, not really that
interesting), but rather
b.) what the correct append option for 2.6.29 would be to switch to. I
do want to have my function keys work as normal function keys and not
have to press the fn additionally to get that.
Thanks - I guess that I found the append line as reasoning means that I
can close the bug report, though the issue isn't closed completely for
me yet.
So long!
Rhonda
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