laptop keyboard doesn't respond but external keyboard does

larand54 · l33t Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 695 Location: Sweden

I've just installed gentoo-2005.0 on my new DELL inspiron 6000.
Well, during the liveCD session all works well. But when rebooting the new system nothing happends when using the laptop:s keyboard. But I have a logitech wireless keyboard connected to the usb and tht's work.

Sure it must be some setting in the kernel-config but I got no idea.

Need some help please.

nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

i can only think you've forgotten to enable support for AT keyboards. check under "device drivers->input device support". or grep your kernel config for "KEYBOARD"

GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

I have the same problem, that didn't fix it for me... or it was actually already compiled in. mm-sources usually does this, but 2.6.11 of any flavor doesn't work...

UPDATE: Aha, I guess it's a known bug...

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4213

The fix is to include i8042.noacpi in the boot flags..
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nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

interesting. thanks for the info. the entry you mentioned said add i8042.noacpi=1 to your kernel flags. i don't know if it makes a difference, just want to be thorough

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

i8042.noacpi is defined as a boolean option so both forms will work.
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