Compaq R3000Z keyboard doesn't work without DSDT patch

Jung-uk Kim jkim at niksun.com
Mon Mar 28 09:43:49 PST 2005


On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:17 am, Nicolas Blais wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Without the following lines in loader.conf:
> acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
>
> and of course in device.hints:
> hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
>
> and Jung-uk Kim's r3000z-asl.diff found on this list, my keyboard
> not work at all but the booting process is fine and I can move my
> mouse, log on thru ssh etc...
>
> I was under the impression that 5.4 would be "R3000 friendly" and
> that the only things needed were hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" in
> device.hints and the powernow module (which stays at 800mhz while
> acpi_ppc works). Is there something I'm doing wrong?

You are not doing anything wrong.  The real problem is the BIOS is so 
broken that some problems cannot be worked around. :-(  Keyboard 
resource is overlapped with something else.  We cannot fix all 
problems without breaking other platforms, unfortunately.

Jung-uk Kim

> Thanks,
> Nicolas.


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