Today I downloaded "the most up-to-date" debian-installer/sid CD image from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20041206/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso
As always, it booted correctly, but the USB keyboard was unusable.
Being desperate I tried to find information how to preseed a kbd-chooser/kbd/usb parameter to the d-i but I was unsuccessful.
However, I thought finally to check the source code of the kbd-chooser. I found a file "usb-kbd.c" in the location:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/packages/kbd-chooser/usb-kbd.c
and, Halleluiah, there is something:
===
if (((p = strstr(buf, "usbhid")) != NULL) &&
((p = strstr(buf, "Cls=03")) != NULL) && // Human Interface Device
((p = strstr(buf, "Sub=01")) != NULL) && // Boot Interface Subclass
((p = strstr(buf, "Prot=01")) != NULL)) { // Keyboard
===
I tried to check /proc/bus/usb/devices file (first I needed to mount usbdevfs)
and look what I got:
=== # mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 4 B: Alloc=205/900 us (23%), #Int= 2, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB OHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=2000000 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0430 ProdID=0100 Rev= 1.05 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 20mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 3 Ivl=10ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0430 ProdID=0005 Rev= 2.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms ===
So it seems that kbd-chooser only chooses USB keyboard if in the /proc/bus/usb/devices there is a "Driver=usbhid". I suppose that on some architectures this is correct, but on SunBlade 150 / sparc64 there is only "Driver=hid". The rest of the information (Cls, Sub, Prot) is fine.
A small patch and maybe kbd-chooser will finally work on this machine? I mean: choose an USB keyboard if "Driver=usbhid" __OR__ "Driver=hid".
Please notify me about any progress.
Best regards, Wiktor Wandachowicz
PS. Sorry for the noise (sending this e-mail to so many people), but if it's going to work... "it's a very exciting time" :-)
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