❦ 16 décembre 2014 09:22 +0900, Mike Hommey <[email protected]> :
> Preliminary note: this works fine with linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 and all
> versions before that.
>
> My setup involves a luks encrypted root file system, so I get a prompt
> during boot for the passphrase. When booting with the kernel from
> linux-image-3.18.0-trunk-amd64, I simply can't type that passphrase with
> a usb keyboard.
>
> Note that before linux-image-3.18.0-trunk-amd64, it did work, but not
> immediately: at the time the prompt showed up, it would not actually
> work, and it would take a few seconds for the keyboard to be recognized,
> but it would eventually be useable to type the passphrase. This, in
> turn, may be related to the fact that the keyboard doesn't work in grub
> either, probably because the old bios compatibility doesn't work. If it
> did, I guess there would actually be no problem with the cryptsetup
> prompt.
I have the same problem but my keyboard works with Grub. I suppose that
the appropriate HID driver or evdev doesn't get loaded in the initramfs
but without a keyboard, that's a bit difficult to test. update-initramfs
doesn't show evdev being used but hid stuff is here.
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