Description of problem: My disk is encrypted (did it during Fedora's setup). When the boot-time dialog for the disk password comes up, my MS Natural 4000 Ergonomic keyboard doesn't work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.4.3-300.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. encrypt disk 2. plug in MS Natural 4000 keyboard 3. reboot Actual results: keyboard doesn't work (although it does work on GRUB2 selector) Expected results: keyboard should work Additional info: I fixed it by regenerating the initramfs with Dracut after creating "hid-microsoft.conf" file on /etc/dracut.conf.d with the following content: add_drivers+=" hid-microsoft " As a bonus, it also recognizes my Xbox Wireless Receiver on boot without me having to unplug it and plugging it back it. But this should work out of the box for all users (right?).
Dracut should be including this if it is loaded on your system. If it isn't, that is a dracut issue.
hmm, even on F23, dracut has: instmods \ "=drivers/hid" \ "=drivers/input/serio" \ "=drivers/input/keyboard" so, all drivers under drivers/hid, _if_ they are loaded while generating the initramfs should be part of it.
of course we can always include those, regardless of the state while creating the initramfs, but then other people complain about the size of the initramfs.
I think this keyboard has extra HID features, that's why I think you need hid_microsoft. If the docs for this case were easier to reach, it wouldn't be a big problem...?
(In reply to Bruno Antunes from comment #4) > I think this keyboard has extra HID features, that's why I think you need > hid_microsoft. If the docs for this case were easier to reach, it wouldn't > be a big problem...? The question is, how did you end up without the hid-microsoft kernel module. Somehow you must have created the initramfs without the keyboard plugged in, which of course might happen.
I only got the keyboard recently... does that explain it?
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