How can you troubleshoot USB keyboard problem?

[Borisfen]

Hello,

this question was already posted here a couple of days ago - but I still hope someone could give me a hint on that.

I have freshly installed FC4 on a Panasonic CF W4 laptop. Everything fine, but one: the USB keyboard does not work.

It works all right under WinXP and even in GRUB bootloader, but not under fc4.
It is even recognized: dmesg outputs something like:

usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [ABBAHOME] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2

I would greatly appreciate any info on what could be changed/tuned in the system to get it working - googling have not helped me much so far.

Regards,

Boris

[gertbor]

I do not know if this will help you...
from /usr/share/doc/hotplug/README

USB MICE AND KEYBOARDS
----------------------
If you need to use a USB mouse with X11, the X server needs to be able to
open "/dev/input/mice". That means you can't hotplug a mouse you plan
to use with X11; it needs some modules preloaded. If you haven't compiled
them into your kernel, try putting this line into /etc/sysconfig/usb:

X11_USBMICE_HACK=true

If you're booting with a USB keyboard and/or mouse, and want to defend
against boot failures like missing modules, you should probably use
static linking for the "hid", "keybdev" (and/or "mousedev"), "input",
"usbcore", and USB Host Controller modules.

(Different Linux distributions may handle this in other ways, such as
hard-wiring parts of USB initialization into an initrd or into scripts
that init runs very early.)

[Borisfen]

Thanks for the info!

I am a bit puzzled at the moment, for there is apparently no keybdev module (at least, "lsmod" does not show it and

"modprobe keybdev"

yields

"FATAL: Module keybdev not found".)

The only modules that seems relevant are uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd...

[Borisfen]

P.S. USB mouse works no problem!