Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 8 weeks ago

#18747 new bug

Keyboard and trackpad nonfunctional on Acer CB3-431

Reported by: lorddimwit Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Drivers/Input/PS2/Keyboard Version: R1/beta4
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

I have an Acer CB3-431 Chromebook, flashed with UEFI firmware from https://mrchromebox.tech.

I can boot Haiku (both Alpha 4 and nightly) off of a USB drive without any problems. Hardware support is pretty good, for the most part:

  • Graphics work great
  • Internal WiFi works fine
  • Sound appears to work

The missing hardware is:

  • Internal storage is not detected
  • The keyboard and trackpad do not work

The keyboard is especially interesting: it doesn't work, *except* in KDL. If I trigger a kernel crash (by removing the USB I booted from and then reinserting it), I am dropped into KDL and the internal keyboard works. I'm not sure why the keyboard would work in KDL but not normally.

A USB keyboard works, but hitting shift/space does not interrupt the bootloader, so I'm not able to do anything like boot into safe mode.

I've attached the output of listdev and the syslog; please let me know if you need anything else. I really appreciate what you've done with Haiku, thank you for your help!

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devlist (2.1 KB ) - added by lorddimwit 10 months ago.
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syslog (108.3 KB ) - added by lorddimwit 10 months ago.
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Change History (7)

by lorddimwit, 10 months ago

Attachment: devlist added

listdev output

by lorddimwit, 10 months ago

Attachment: syslog added

syslog

by lorddimwit, 10 months ago

Attachment: usbdevs added

comment:1 by waddlesplash, 10 months ago

Component: - GeneralDrivers/Input/PS2/Keyboard
KERN: ps2: keyboard reset failed, status 0x80000009, data 0xff
KERN: ps2: keyboard getid failed, status 0x80000009, data 0x0000. Assuming no keyboard
KERN: ps2: keyboard probing failed
USER: Notify of added/removed/started/stopped device
Last message repeated 1 time
KERN: KeyboardDevice: error when opening /dev/input/keyboard/at/0: General system error
KERN: ps2: devfs_unpublish_device input/keyboard/at/0, status = 0x00000000

So, the keyboard reset fails, and then we assume there's no keyboard. But apparently there is one, because the KDL code to handle PS/2 interrupts clearly works. So I wonder what's going wrong here?

To confirm: the same thing happens on beta4 and nightlies (i.e. no keyboard and you see similar lines in the syslog)?

comment:2 by lorddimwit, 10 months ago

Those logs are from the nightly build from a couple of days ago.

The behavior is the same on Alpha 4 though I don’t recall if the syslog was the same. I can boot up Alpha 4 later tonight and let you know, though I’m willing to bet it’s the same.

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 10 months ago

I searched the web a bit, it seems Linux had trouble with these machines as well, and requires CONFIG_PINCTRL_CHERRYVIEW=y to do some configuration of IO ports before the PS2 controller can fully work.

Since KDL works, I assume it is "almost working" and maybe it's just the interrupts that are not getting delivered or something like that.

This is mentionned here for example: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213852

FreeBSD also seems to have various quirks for these machines because the keyboard controller is not behaving exactly like in a normal PC:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=319d2bf407b3762da6f1c67ffe8dce2fee587aaf

https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=freebsd-current@freebsd.org&q=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+14.0%5C-CURRENT+boots+fine+but+keyboard+does+not+work%22&o=newest&f=1

comment:4 by waddlesplash, 8 weeks ago

Please retest after hrev58155.

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