Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Successful boot via Max Drive Pro; keyboard not working

[Steven L. <st...@kr...>]

Hi,

First of all, I wrote the SI driver for gc-linux (altho most of the credit has to
go to groupaz since he wrote/hacked the detection code).

While writing this driver I only had access to a Datel adapter (+ keyboard) and
a few standard controllers; I was not able to test this.

The detection code is, for the keyboard, far from perfect. I was not able to
finalize/improve the detection code since I had no sources (documents, ...) to
look at. Isobel put an option into the kernel to "hardcode" the keyboard at a port.

Numlock/capslock/scrolllock don't mean anything. They aren't handled by the
kernel like in a normal computer, but just light up when you press then. No
signal is received by the SI hardware in the cube, as far as I know.

If you have the time/resources to improve the driver, please do so!

Steven Looman

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:03:08PM +0100, Rob Reilink wrote:
> I know I got to that problem a while ago at the 21C3. My keyboard
> adaptor (actually mist's) was not recognised. Mist told me it had worked
> when the SI driver was still hardcoded to accept a keyboard at some
> port, but it didn't work any more. I don't think I have time to check it
> out this week. The fact that the num and caps lights work does not need
> to mean anything, don't know if they are controlled by the kernel or the
> hardware.
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: gc-...@li...
> [mailto:gc-...@li...] Namens Daniel
> Thompson
> Verzonden: zondag 6 februari 2005 18:50
> Aan: gc-...@li...
> Onderwerp: [Gc-linux-devel] Successful boot via Max Drive Pro; keyboard
> not working
> 
> Hi Folks
> 
> First, a bit of news:
> 
> Linux boots successfully when loaded via the Max Drive Pro. Datel
> finally got round to releasing their gizmo (I got mine about a week ago)
> and almost the first time I tried it the kernel booted, found my NFS
> server and made it to the Debian login prompt on my UK (PAL) 'Cube.
> 
> Second, a bit of a problem:
> 
> I have a (very cheap) keyboard adaptor I bought on Lik-sang at the same
> time I bought my BBA. It is a two-in-one device that can either connect
> a PS/2 keyboard or a Playstation controller. The kernel correctly
> identified the peripherals in the boot messages (2 controllers, unused,
> keyboard) but unfortunately the keyboard just didn't seem to work
> (though caps lock and num lock lights do come on and off when I press
> those buttons).
> 
> So a variety of crack-pot questions:
> 
>  - has anyone had their Lik-sang 2-in-1 adaptor work on gc-linux?
>    (and in what socket)
> 
>  - has anyone had their keyboard work after booting via a Max drive?
>    (a long shot given how rare those things are)
> 
>  - does anyone know of any bare machine .dol programs that use the
>    keyboard so I might be able to prove the hardware does work?
> 
>  - could someone with a keyboard and SDLoad unplug their BBA and
>    let me know if <Shift-PgUp> gets the kernel to scroll up from the
>    'Looking for RPC ... messages'? (I want to debug the keyboard thing
>    before laying a network cable down to the living room so I'd like to
>    know how to tell when I've got it working!)
> 
> Unless someone has a better suggestion I guess I need to go and add lots
> of printk's to the keyboard driver (and any lower-level drivers) to
> figure out what might have gone wrong.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Thompson <gc-...@re...>
> 
> 
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