USB Keyboard problem
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Just bought an "HP Multimedia Keyboard Hub" (USB). Using with RedHat 7.2, kernels 2.4.9-81 and also various 2.4.19-pre.
Yeah. I am having a hell of a time with HP keyboards, and I would like very much if you can help.
With 7.3 we roll a pretty stock 2.4.19-pre (called 2.4.18-4.x), so there is practically no difference in this area. You may be better off looking at stock kernels because the problem is not Red Hat specific.
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After "rmmod hid" and "modprobe hid" The usb keyboard works just fine - until I disconnect/reconnect it or until the next reboot.
Yep. "rmmod hid && insmod hid" fixes it, and this is what makes it hard to debug. However, your hint about the disconnect is very important.
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The keyboard works with other OS, or with the bios (after I enabled "USB Legasy Support").
This is also needed for Linux: LILO or GRUB won't work unless this is enabled. Kernel does not care, naturally...
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I'm also looking for programs o test the HID event interface (evtest) as suggested in the docs, It is not in the suggested web page.
It is linked from this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55878
Here's the link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=39264
Please make sure that Vojtech is in the loop. I do not really follow the input and HID code (after months of trying :).
-- Pete
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Just bought an "HP Multimedia Keyboard Hub" (USB). Using with RedHat 7.2, kernels 2.4.9-81 and also various 2.4.19-pre.
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Yeah. I am having a hell of a time with HP keyboards, and I would like very much if you can help.
With 7.3 we roll a pretty stock 2.4.19-pre (called 2.4.18-4.x),
Oh yeah, it's pretty stock, as long as you
overlook the backported-from-2.5 scheduler -
;-)