Microsoft Natural dies shortly after boot.

zonian1903 · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Orlando, FL

Hello everyone, I have a question I've been trying to find the answer to for a while.

I installed Gentoo with a loaned standard keyboard because I had left my old PS/2 Microsoft Natural keyboard at my friends house. I got my keyboard back and this is what happens. After the machine boots, the keyboard remains operational until sometime between after Grub has me select the kernel I want to use and before the login screen (I am using a text login). When it gets to grub, I can move the options with the keyboard and select capslock etc. However, right after that, the keyboard acts like its getting no power. I tried the keyboard on another windows machine and it works fine. I looked at rc.conf and the keymap setting is KEYMAP="us" and the EXTENDED_KEYMAP= (has an assignment operator but nothing after it). I would really appreciate any help, this keyboard is the only one I've used that won't give me nasty pains in my wrist.

Frank

zonian1903 · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Orlando, FL

Anyone?

dtor · Guru Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 461 Location: Indiana, USA

It looks like it is not getting detected.

I would need you to verify that keyboard is not working with vanilla kernel tree and if so you'll have to change #undef DEBUG to #define DEBUG drivers/input/serio/i8042.c, reboot with log_buf_len=131072 and then send output of "dmesg -s 131072" to dtor_core@ameritech.net.

Since original keyboard will not work try unplugging it and plugging the old one after booting to be able to type.
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ddeacon · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 22

I'm having the same problem but it occured after I switched from a PS/2 Intellimouse to a wireless USB mouse. I enabled full USB HID support and the mouse works fine, but the keyboard thing has become intermittent. Like you said, it works through grub but if I boot to a CLI or to X, the keyboard doesn't work.

Karsten1973 · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

I have a Microsoft Natural Pro with german keyset. It works just fine (have not tried to confige the additional keys for Internet access). If I can help with config infos, just ask.

Being a newbie, I need full paths etc.