You hit the nail on the head. Linux keycodes became the default a few releases ago. ADB keycodes causes problems and does not work with a more recent Debian version. I'm not sure if you can turn of ADB completely, as I thought of the power management stuff depended on it (someone else correct me if I'm wrong please), but on my machine, I still have ADB, so here's my .config's relevant sections:
kaiso:~ 14:42:11 254% cat /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/.config | grep ADB CONFIG_ADB_CUDA=y # CONFIG_ADB_PMU is not set CONFIG_ADB=y CONFIG_ADB_MACIO=y CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID=y # CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is not set cheers -- Vinai To get my real e-mail address, replace "4" with "for" in the above address On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Diana Galletly wrote: > Well, I bit the bullet and went with Debian testing so I could install > all sorts of things that I'd been wanting (OpenOffice for instance); > but unfortunately some kernel option to do with ADB (I think) that was > necessary for woody needs turning off for testing, because random garbage > characters started coming out of my keyboard after upgrading (so I can't > currently log in ...) I tried turning off ADB altogether but now, rather > than garbage, I get nothing out of my keyboard. Is it the raw keycodes > (or the like) option that needs disabling whilst leaving the rest of ADB > enabled, or is it something else? I *can* cycle through all options if > necessary, but if someone knows the answer I might then be able to spend > tomorrow doing some work rather than emergency system maintenance :-)
