On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:15:52PM +0400, Jay Philips wrote: > Hello, > > I was asked by Greg Kroah-Hartman to send this email to the mailing list > regarding USB keyboards on LG laptops no longer functioning after Linux 3.9. > Below is the text from the bug report i left at ( > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93541 ). > > ---------------------------------- > > Starting with Linux 3.9, the internal USB keyboard in my LG laptop (LG R1 > model LGW4) stopped functioning in all linux distributions i've tried. > > I had spoken to a few guys in the kernel irc channel and they told me that i > should point out the keyboard is found in the attached dmesg log file on > line: > > [ 5.516045] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as > /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4 That's not a USB keyboard, it's a built-in-keyboard-controller keyboard. > I had submitted the bug to ubuntu's launchpad bug service and they told me > that i should take the bug upstream ( > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1287325 ) and mentioned > the following (comment 26). > > "It appears the keyboard is not recognized in 13.04, but it is in 13.10. ... > It may be the bug is caused by the fact that the keyboard now being > recognized in 13.10 and another code path is being used." > > Other LG laptop users have also encountered the same problems ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/361692/laptop-keyboard-not-responding-after-upgrade-from-13-04-to-13-10, http://stevesubuntutweaks.blogspot.no/2013/10/laptop-keyboard-stopped-working-after.html > ) and the solution that i currently use is to set "i8042.dumbkbd=1" in the > grub commandline to get it running. That option seems like a solution, right? As this isn't really a USB keyboard (sorry, missed that in your original bug entry), try sending this to the linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list where the input developers are. They can help you out better than we can here. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
