Re: 14.0-CURRENT boots fine but keyboard does not work
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:40:08 UTC
> On 4. Sep 2023, at 19:34, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > El día lunes, septiembre 04, 2023 a las 07:29:41p. m. +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió: > >> >> >>>> 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? > > I'm actually using (and typing this on it) r368166. Will file a PR > tomorrow. Thanks > This could also be related: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=319d2bf407b3762da6f1c67ffe8dce2fee587aaf You could try to undo that patch and build a new kernel. Best Michael > matthias > >>>> 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 >> >> > > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub