[ltp] How?: Trackpoint USB keyboard in linux

Boyan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:52:46 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

On 12 Nov 2002, Rob Mayoff wrote:

> +---------- On Nov 12, Boyan said:
> > Do you see something suspicious?
>
> Try "modprobe keybdev".

# modprobe keybdev , and no error message. Still no keyboard and lsmod
reports:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
keybdev                 1664   0  (unused)
snd-pcm-oss            45152   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          11136   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc             25448   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5824   0  (autoclean)
parport                21856   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
snd-via686              8068   0
snd-pcm                58528   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-via686]
snd-timer              11456   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         24196   0  [snd-via686]
snd-mpu401-uart         3504   0  [snd-via686]
snd-rawmidi            13536   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          4336   0  [snd-rawmidi]
ipv6                  123424  -1  (autoclean)
snd                    31720   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via686 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3268   5  [snd]
isa-pnp                27816   0  (unused)
mousedev                3872   1
hid                    17824   0  (unused)
joydev                  5728   0  (unused)
evdev                   3904   0  (unused)
input                   3072   0  [keybdev mousedev hid joydev evdev]
usb-uhci               20996   0  (unused)
usbcore                55136   1  [hid usb-uhci]
af_packet              11528   1  (autoclean)
3c59x                  25032   1
ext3                   60160   1
jbd                    42196   1  [ext3]

Regards,
Boyan


> Note that you might be able to log in from another system to run
> commands, instead of using a PS/2 keyboard.  It shouldn't matter though.
>
>