[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#597209: base: keyboard doesn't work properly

rush rush1503 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 16:38:08 UTC 2010


Package: base
Severity: normal

Hello,

I've an error in dmesg:
 $ dmesg | grep -i keyboard
[    0.430054] atkbd.c: Failed to enable keyboard on isa0060/serio0
[    0.430174] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1

I think it is a reason, that LED indicators don't work at all:
i can press caps lock or num lock, but it doesn't affect at LED at all, it affects only on keyboard behaviour.
and this LED is my layout indicator. it's too hard to work without it :(

By the way keyboard if Genius GK-04008/C and it worked perfect with old computer (there was debian since debian etch). This bug is only with new hardware. I tried to use this keyboard with old one and all is fine.
New hardware is: AMD Athlon II X2 215 with Gigabyte M52L-S3P. Old one was AMD Athlon Dual Core 4050 with EliteGroup GeForce6100PMM2 SocketAM2.

Also setleds from VT shows nothing about caps lock. it's always off. Others (num and scroll) it shows correct, but leds are always turned on. 

By the way, my keyboard configuration:

 $ grep -vE "^#|^$" /etc/default/keyboard 
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,ru"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBOPTIONS="grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

I tried to change keyboard with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, but it didn't help me.

The last one, if it's matter anything my wm is awesome and i haven't any DE (like gnome/kde/etc).

Thank you for your time and help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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