Messages in this thread | | | From | Gustavo Guillermo Perez <> | Subject | Re: serio / atkbd / PS/2 Strangeness with Serial port adapter | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:04:30 -0500 |
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El Jueves, 6 de Agosto de 2009, escribió: > Hello! > > Apologies if this really is't the right forum (suggestions on the > right forum would be welcome). > > We are switching from an old 2.4 kernel on our thin clients to 2.6 > (2.6.28-gentoo-r5). You missed the serial io port driver.
kernel/drivers/input/serio > Things are working well - except for one problem. One the new image, > some of the input devices don't work we expected. We have a number of > different barcode scanners that attach to these terminals. Many of the new > ones are USB HID compliant devices - which is great. Most of them are > actually serial port devices, that connect to the terminal via a > serial --> PS/2 'wedge'. The PS/2 wedge devices are the ones that > don't work correctly. > > If we connect the scanner to the thin client, and boot the image, the > scanner does not work. It does not show up at all as an input device: > > blablahostname / # cat /proc/bus/input/devices > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c001 Version=0110 > N: Name="Logitech USB Mouse" > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:03.0-1/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input0 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 > B: EV=17 > B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > B: REL=103 > B: MSC=10 > > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=03f0 Product=0024 Version=0110 > N: Name="CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard" > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:03.1-2/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input1 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event1 > B: EV=120013 > B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe > B: MSC=10 > B: LED=7 > > I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100 > N: Name="PC Speaker" > P: Phys=isa0061/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event2 > B: EV=40001 > B: SND=6 > > So, I enabled debugging on the contoller driver(serio.c), and I see > that the device generates noise when connected: > > [ 458.875614] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f2 -> i8042 (kbd-data) [444989] > [ 458.908119] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, > 1, timeout) [445022] > [ 458.908144] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: ed -> i8042 (kbd-data) [445022] > [ 458.940151] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, > 1, timeout) [445054] > [ 458.940225] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [445054] > [ 458.940234] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f2 -> i8042 (parameter) > [445054] [ 458.972190] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 > (interrupt, 1, 12, timeout) [445086] > [ 458.972204] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [445086] > [ 458.972212] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: ed -> i8042 (parameter) > [445086] [ 459.004227] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe <- i8042 > (interrupt, 1, 12, timeout) [445118] > [20171.684870] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 0b <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, > 1) [20162195] > > However - the atkbd driver does not pick the device up at all. > > So, I did find a workaround (which is NOT acceptable for this > deployment). Remember the PS/2 'wedge' I mentioned? Well, it has an > extra PS/2 port for your keyboard. If I connect a PS/2 keyboard to > that thing, suddenly my scanner starts working. > > We see some chatter from the controller driver, then one of these: > > [23811.805578] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as > /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input6 > > Aaaand a new device is registered as an input device: > > yayayayhostname# cat /proc/bus/input/devices > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c001 Version=0110 > N: Name="Logitech USB Mouse" > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:03.0-1/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input0 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 > B: EV=17 > B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > B: REL=103 > B: MSC=10 > > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=03f0 Product=0024 Version=0110 > N: Name="CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard" > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:03.1-2/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input1 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event1 > B: EV=120013 > B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe > B: MSC=10 > B: LED=7 > > I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100 > N: Name="PC Speaker" > P: Phys=isa0061/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event2 > B: EV=40001 > B: SND=6 > > I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41 > N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" > P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0 > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input6 > U: Uniq= > H: Handlers=kbd event3 > B: EV=120013 > B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe > B: MSC=10 > B: LED=7 > > Here is an lsmod, and I've attached .config in case it's helpful: > > Module Size Used by > ppdev 6276 0 > parport_pc 26512 1 > lp 8560 0 > parport 26824 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp > pcspkr 2176 0 > atkbd 15508 0 > ohci_hcd 28308 0 > > So, I don't get it. We had this all working fine with the (now > ancient version) LTSP configuration, linux 2.4, etc. Did some drastic > things change in 2.6 with keyboard management? > > I am completely out of ideas. The only thing I can figure is that the > PS/2 wedge thing isn't doing the right thing, and as a result the 2.6 > version of the atkbd driver isn't binding it? Maybe there is some > udev magic I need to know? > > Apologies if I've missed something obvious here. Any help would be > much appreciated! > Thanks!
-- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez www.compunauta.com Anuncios Gratis: http://anuncios.compunauta.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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