Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 106974
usb keyboard and mouse support missing from kernel configuration
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:58:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Galeon/1.3.9 Description of problem: the following two config entries are unset in the 2.6 test RPMS: CONFIG_USB_KBD CONFIG_USB_MOUSE as such, usb mice and keyboards aren't recognized. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.0-0.test7.1.52 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the test kernel 2. attempt to use a usb keyboard or mouse Additional info:
You should use the HID keyboard and mouse drivers, AFIAIK.
I read that in the config help - but couldn't find any *useful* pointers on how to do so. The end result was that without those two config modules built, usb keyboard and mouse wouldn't work at all - with them, they did. If you have any pointers on how to make a USB keyboard and/or mouse work without building those modules, I'm all ears.
At this point I'm still rebuilding the kernel to include those two drivers - but if there's a better way, I'd really like to know. Any comment? Does anyone have a USB keyboard and/or mouse working with the binary kernel RPMS (i.e. without the keyboard and mouse boot HID drivers)?
It may be that your problems arise from the fact that the USB UHCI/OHCI drivers have a different name under 2.6. On my system I had to use usb-uhci under 2.4. The correct driver for 2.6 is uhci_hcd. Note that changing the name in /etc/modules.conf did not work, at least for me. I am manually loading the driver in /etc/rc.local.
Thanks, but the problem isn't the host adaptor - that's just fine (I made the change in /etc/modprobe.conf - note the new name - the new modutils doesn't look at modules.conf - and all was good) - the problem was that usbmouse.ko couldn't be found (cause it wasn't built and installed) by modprobe. The configuration help seems to suggest there's a newer better more pure way to use usb input devices, but I haven't been able to find anything on how that magic is supposed to work (other than to rebuild the kernel and include usbmouse and usbkbd as modules).
Ok - fixed it - error between keyboard and chair. Closing.