bug#20433: Keyboard not working on laptop with guixSD

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> So, using HIDBP is probably wrong and might very well be the cause.
>>>> Looking at the module names again I searched the logs for “usbkbd” and,
>>>> yes, the GuixSD logs contain this line:
>>>>
>>>>     usbcore: registered new interface driver usbkbd
>>>
>>> Do you think we should remove usbkbd from (gnu system linux-initrd)?
>>> Is there another module we should load instead?
>>
>> I don’t know why one would want to use “usbkbd” and thus HIDBP.  As far
>> as I understand “usbhid” should be sufficient.
>
> Looking at the description you pasted, I agree with you.
> I’ve removed usbkbd loading in commit b153f9f.
>
> Jessica, could you confirm one way or another that usbkbd is the
> culprit?

That adding ‘hid-apple’ solves the problem was confirmed at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-01/msg00118.html> and
fixed in cc023e3.  The fix will be in 0.9.1.

Closing the bug.

Thanks,
Ludo’.