[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

[Frank Griffin]

On 03/19/2013 12:15 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 19/03/13 15:25 did gyre and gimble:
>>
>> Problem still present in last night's installer upload...
> Were you able to try Thierry's suggestion?

My apologies, I must have missed it.  I looked it up in the archives, 
and from the code involved, it looked like a good possibility.  I went 
and read bug#9242, but given the trouble al13n had, I don't think I'd 
fare too well trying to check out and rebuild stage1.  I've used svn 
lightly, years ago, but I'm not familiar with the MGA SVN layout at all.

The dracut patch you mentioned added ehci-pci and ehci-platform.  I 
drilled down into the all.rdz files for isolinux, and boot.iso, and 
all.rdz.uncompressed has all three of them (-hcd, -pci, -platform). The 
working cauldron partition from Mar 11's MCC harddrake reports the 
module for the USB keyboard as usbhid, which is there as well in all of 
them.

So perhaps the problem is in some control list of things to be loaded ?  
If you can point me to that, I'll check it.


> I don't see any significant changes:
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/mdk-stage1/?view=log
>
> So it would still be interesting to know if the commit he mentioned
> (http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=7542)
> is the one to blame for this.
>
>

My impression from the code and the bug report comments is that the 
change either converts "-" in module names to "_" or vice-versa, or 
stops whichever of these it was doing before.

Also, the bugreports states that "tv is OK with this provided it's 
tested", and follows this up with "I couldn't test it", so it's unclear 
what the status of the change really is.