USB keyboard not working in installer on G4 iMac

[Vlado Plaga]

My keyboard stops working once the installer starts. I have a G4 iMac and
an Apple USB keyboard. The Ubuntu CD I tried is from September 23.

I first mentioned this problem as an addition to bug #8618. Colin asked me to
report it as a separate bug and add the outpus of "lspci" and "lspci -n" from a
working system. This is a Debian unstable system.

I'd like to give Ubuntu a try, but as currently I don't have a flatrate I can't
download too many complete CD images a month and need to wait until someone
thinks this problem should be fixed, before giving it another try. I'll try to
answer more quickly next time.

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

Created an attachment (id=292)
Output of lspci and lspci -n

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Google tells me this is an OHCI controller. I've added it to the discover tables
for good measure:

discover1-data (1.2004.09.12-0ubuntu10) warty; urgency=low

  * Add usb/usb-ohci for 106b003f (closes: Ubuntu #1997).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:22:45 +0100

However, I added some code to usb-discover last night which should detect all
USB controllers without the need to update discover. This should be in the
20041003 daily CD, when it appears.

I recommend downloading daily images by rsyncing based on previous downloads,
which reduces the bandwidth costs considerably.

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

(In reply to comment #2)

> However, I added some code to usb-discover last night which should detect all
> USB controllers without the need to update discover. This should be in the
> 20041003 daily CD, when it appears.

I tried that CD, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/20041003/, by using jigdo the
way Jack Johnson describes it in the ubuntu-devel list:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-September/000266.html
This way I just needed 430 of the 1088 files, which turned out to be around 300
MB. The md5 checksum was ok. Still the keyboard does not work. :(

> I recommend downloading daily images by rsyncing based on previous downloads,
> which reduces the bandwidth costs considerably.

How is this possible? I'd have to rebuild the CD, right? So I'd copy my CD to
some directory, say my_cd_master_dir, then do:

rsync rsync://archive.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily/current/[master-directory]
my_cd_master_dir

Then mkisofs and cdrecord. But is such a master directory available? If yes
where is it?

I reopened the bug because for me the cd definitely does not work. I even found
your entry in the changelog in the discover1-data_1.2004.09.12-0ubuntu10_all.deb
file. The ohci-hci usb module should be correct, that's what I use in my
self-comiled kernel as well.

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The ohci-hci usb module should be correct, that's what I use in my
> self-comiled kernel as well.

I'm using it together with the EHCI HCI (USB 2.0) support. The keyboard has only
USB 1.1 ports, though, and should not require this support, right?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I tried that CD, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/20041003/, by using jigdo the
> way Jack Johnson describes it in the ubuntu-devel list:
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-September/000266.html
> This way I just needed 430 of the 1088 files, which turned out to be around 300
> MB. The md5 checksum was ok. Still the keyboard does not work. :(

From your working system, assuming it's 2.6, please show me the output of:

  grep 0c03 /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class

> > I recommend downloading daily images by rsyncing based on previous downloads,
> > which reduces the bandwidth costs considerably.
>
> How is this possible? I'd have to rebuild the CD, right?

rsync operates on the .iso file you've downloaded. There's no need to mkisofs,
and no need for a "master directory". Type:

  rsync -avz archive.ubuntulinux.org::cdimage/daily/current/warty-i386.iso
warty-i386.iso

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

(In reply to comment #5)

> From your working system, assuming it's 2.6, please show me the output of:
>
> grep 0c03 /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class

Voilà:

/sys/bus/pci/devices/0001:01:18.0/class:0x0c0310
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0001:01:19.0/class:0x0c0310
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0001:01:1a.0/class:0x0c0310

> rsync operates on the .iso file you've downloaded.

That's cool. I thought it could only check which files in a directory are
modified and which are not.

I hope you can fix the problem and I really appreciate your work! I'd still like
to try Ubuntu, although the main reason for my recent trouble with Debian
unstable has disappeared after an update of the xlibs package.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I have no idea why the new usb-discover class-handling code didn't work for you,
and it's rather hard to debug without a keyboard. I've rebuilt usb-discover
against the newest discover1-data for good measure, to see if that helps; it'll
be in the 20041009 daily.

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I've rebuilt usb-discover
> against the newest discover1-data for good measure, to see if that helps; it'll
> be in the 20041009 daily.

I'll download and try it tomorrow. Let's hope for the best.

[Vlado Plaga (vlado-gmx)]

The usb keyboard is now working on my G4 iMac.

With rsync I had to download about 170 MB to update my CD image from 20041003 to
20041009.

Today I don't have time to actually perform the installation, but I'll try it soon.