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FS#9616 - Acer-Laptop-Keyboard won't work with Kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 and HAL 0.5.10-1

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sanel Durakovic (Beeema) - Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 19:00 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When updating to Kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 the HAL-Daemon(started from rc.conf) loads very long and when reaching the Login-Field of KDM the keyboard won't work, but I can shutdown the laptop with clicking on the shutdown button with a USB-mouse. I also can't use the power-button to turn off the laptop (like pressing 5-seconds) and have to take out the accumulator
When I take HAL out of rc.conf, I can type my login-name and passwort, but when entering KDE, the keyboard works only for a few seconds.

Kernel26-2.6.23 works without any problems. Configurations like the xorg.conf haven't been changed, so it can't be due to xorg-xserver

Also I can't post log-files, because when starting hal with: hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog, the laptop won't react and after a restart nothing has been logged

Additional info:
packages:
Kernel26-2.6.24.1-2
HAL-0.5.10-1

Steps to reproduce:
reproducible with kernel26-2.6.24-1, but on the german forum I have been told that I'm the first one reporting a problem like this, maybe it depends on my hardware
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 20:10 GMT
do you have acerhk installed and module loaded?
what Acer model do you have?
Comment by Sanel Durakovic (Beeema) - Saturday, 23 February 2008, 14:46 GMT
Acerhk is not installed
Acer Model: TravelMate 4501
Comment by ndlarsen (ndlarsen) - Sunday, 24 February 2008, 23:07 GMT
I can confirm this issue on my Acer Travelmate 4501LCi. My keyboard and touchpad stops working shortly after the login prompt, both in runlevel 3 and 5 which leaves out X and X-related as the cause. Downgrading the kernel to a pre 2.6.24 solved the issue here too.
Comment by Sanel Durakovic (Beeema) - Thursday, 28 February 2008, 18:23 GMT
Same behaviour with Kernel 2.6.24.3-1 from Testing
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Friday, 29 February 2008, 09:47 GMT
This is really strange as at least the 5 second pressing in the poweroff button is a BIOS functionality and should work regardless of OS.

Have you tried to update your bios?
Comment by Sanel Durakovic (Beeema) - Friday, 29 February 2008, 11:50 GMT
No, I have never updated my BIOS
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Monday, 03 March 2008, 09:44 GMT
This is most definitely a BIOS bug, possibly ACPI DSDT bug. The 5s poweroff button is a BIOS functionality not OS controlled.

Cross-check the Acer update center for a updated BIOS version.
Comment by ndlarsen (ndlarsen) - Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 17:38 GMT
I am currently running the lastest bios and have been for quite a while, as in a few years. I fail to see how this could be bios related as the issue is dependent on kernel versions.
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 21:12 GMT
Simple, when your kernel crashes or even if you don't have a kernel but are still in GRUB the key works.

I had a similar problem in Fedora 8, caused by a service "irqbalance" or something that crashed my boot possibly because the 2 processors were virtual (hiperthreading). There was also a same service in Fedora Core 7 but with another name.

The system didn't stopped upon starting the service but a bit further, upon some testing I've manage to catch it.
Comment by Sanel Durakovic (Beeema) - Friday, 25 April 2008, 17:24 GMT
found this: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/37472

i blacklisted the sbs-module and now the keyboard works with 2.6.25 and hal0.5.11rc2. but I'm not sure what to think about it as at my first attempt that udev-autoload took 7sek, 2more than with 2.6.23
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 15:46 GMT
Is this still an issue?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 05 October 2008, 15:51 GMT
status of this bug?

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