Re: 14.0-CURRENT boots fine but keyboard does not work
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:29:41 UTC
> On 4. Sep 2023, at 19:23, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > Added Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> to To: as the origin of the CI; > > Neither hw.atkbd.hz=1 nor hw.atkbd.hz=10 makes the keyboard working on > my beloved Acer C720. Should I file a new PR? > Filing a PR makes sense, could you please Cc me on it? Do you know which version of FreeBSD was the last that worked for you? Cheers > > >> El día lunes, septiembre 04, 2023 a las 06:55:52p. m. +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió: >> >> >> >> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 18:43:11 +0200 >> Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: >> >>> I have a 14.0-CURRENT compiled from sources of head from August 4, >>> which boots fine from a produced USB key, but the keyboard does not >>> work on an Acer C720 (amd64), on other laptops the keyboard is fine. >>> >>> The keyboard works during the boot menu (for example to enable verbose >>> boot messages) but not on the login: prompt of the booted system. >>> >>> I've enabled SSH access into the C720 (if someone need more >>> information) and I'm attaching /var/log/messages of the booted system. >> >> Hi Matthias, >> >> The C720 required special patches for the keyboard to work, which I >> originally added here: >> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=6c176113bbdd598231ec47d161d4c3714997169b >> >> I assume that something in that area changed recently. >> >> Without digging into it, this looks like a possible cause: >> >> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sys/dev/atkbdc/atkbd.c?id=ce881170088c4c98c036fe561f8ee8413c2e2585 >> >> atkbd: Disable periodic polling by default. >> It is one of the few remaining Giant-locked callouts. It would be >> good to remove it, not mentioning that polling itself is not good. >> >> If this cause keyboard/mouse freezes on some hardware, please set >> loader tunable hw.atkbd.hz=1 as workaround and report the issue. >> >> So you could try to set hw.atkbd.hz=1 (or hw.atkbd.hz=10) in >> /boot/loader.conf, then reboot and see if it helps. >> >> Best >> Michael >> >> -- >> Michael Gmelin >> > > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub