Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 83400
USB mouse found by installer but not by boot
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:34:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 Description of problem: During a fresh graphical install of RHL8.0 Workstation (software development), the installer finds all 5 USB buses and the USB mouse on the front-of-box connection. The mouse works during the install, even though the BIOS is set to initialize only the "minimal boot" devices, which includes only 2 of the USB buses, and omits the front-of-box connection. However, at first boot only 2 of the USB buses get initialized (the ones that the BIOS sets up; they are the only ones listed in /etc/modules.conf). Kudzu detects that tbe USB mouse has been removed and a PS/2 mouse has been added (the BIOS did this remap by default), and the result is unfriendly (no mouse) unless you trust kudzu and let kudzu remap the mouse. /etc/modules.conf should have listed all 5 USB buses. Pentium 4 board ASUS P4B266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1005 12/27/2001 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Fresh graphical install RHL8.0 on ASUS P4B266 with BIOS set to init only the "essential" PCI devices: IDE, 2*USB, VGA. These other PCI devices are not initialized: 3*USB, sound, eth0. 2.Boot newly-installed system for first time. 3. Actual Results: All 5 USB buses are detected by the installer, and USB mouse attached to front-of-box USB port works. However, only 2 USB buses get listed in /etc/modules.conf. When booted for the first time, then the newly installed system says USB mouse has been removed, PS/2 mouse has been added, and there will be no mouse unless kudzu is allowed to update the configuration. Expected Results: All 5 USB buses should be listed in /etc/modules.conf, and the first boot should not detect any change in configuration, and the mouse should work both during install and after first boot, with no complaints, adjustments, or user intervention. Additional info: Google search at install of previous system (RHL7.2) suggested using the kernel boot option "nopnpbios" in grub.conf. After adding the 3 other "alias usb-controllerN ..." statements to modules.conf, and using "nopnpbios" kernel boot option, then the system boots as expected (USB mouse, no complaints, no further adjustments needed).
Created attachment 89817 [details] /etc/sysconfig/hw.conf by installer This is what is seen at first boot when only 2*USB appear in /etc/modules.conf .
Created attachment 89818 [details] /etc/sysconfig/hwconf as corrected This is what is seen with all 5*USB buses listed in /etc/modules.conf .
Created attachment 89819 [details] /etc/modules.conf by installer This is what the installer creates for /etc/modules.conf .
Created attachment 89820 [details] /etc/modules.conf as corrected This is /etc/modules.conf hand-corrected to list all 5*USB buses.
Created attachment 89821 [details] boot messages (partial) with only 2*USB in /etc/modules.conf This is USB-related messages from /var/log/messages using the installer-created /etc/modules.conf which lists only 2*USB buses.
Created attachment 89822 [details] boot messages (partial) with all 5*USB buses in /etc/modules.conf This is USB-related lines from /var/log/messages after correcting /etc/modules.conf to list all 5*USB buses.
Kudzu maintainer - any ideas?
Not off the top of my head. The hwconf in the installer looks correct; it's not obvious why the usb-uhci module isn't in modules.conf. Does this work better with the Phoebe beta?
Phoebe beta (original, non-updated ISOs) works better: 3*USB are listed in /etc/modules.conf, and mouse works at first boot with no complaints or adjustments. However the remaining 2*USB are still found the by installer but not listed in /etc/modules.conf. I will attach copies of the boot /syslog, /etc/modules.conf, and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.
Created attachment 89908 [details] /syslog generated by Phoebe when booting from CD-ROM Very first hardware detection finds 5*USB buses when booting from Phoebe ISO.
Created attachment 89909 [details] /etc/modules.conf from install of Phoebe Phoebe lists 3*USB in /etc/modules.conf (RHL8.0 lists only 2), but still omits another 2*USB that the machine has.
Created attachment 89910 [details] /etc/sysconfig/hwconf generated by Phoebe It's not clear to me, but maybe all 5*USB are listed in this 'hwconf' from Phoebe install.
Phoebe looks fine; you only need one entry for each controller type. So it look sto be working.