6.9 -current, Gnome 40 not picking up keyboard

[bceverly]

Hi,

I decided to switch over to 6.9 - current and installed my normal Gnome/GDM setup and was really happy to discover that folks are working on Gnome 40!

Unfortunately for me, my keyboard is not working in either GDM or Gnome-Shell. I can see the caps lock light toggle on and off when I press it and Ctrl+Alt+F2 gets me to console where everything works perfectly.

I can use the on screen keyboard to log into Gnome so I know everything else appears to be working.

Any ideas on what sort of diagnostic info I can grab to help out? It doesn't work with the builtin W541 keyboard or an external USB keyboard (Logitech K200).

Thanks!

[jggimi]

Any ideas on what sort of diagnostic info I can grab to help out?

Your dmesg(8) may describe the keyboard hardware, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log may describe any X11 keyboard connections. Examples of both from this working laptop:

$ dmesg | grep kbd
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
$

$ grep kbd /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    27.424] (II) config/wscons: checking input device /dev/wskbd
[    27.424] (II) wskbd: using layout us
[    27.425] (II) LoadModule: "kbd"
[    27.426] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
[    27.427] (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    27.427] (II) Using input driver 'kbd' for '/dev/wskbd'
[    27.427] (**) /dev/wskbd: always reports core events
[    27.427] (**) /dev/wskbd: always reports core events
[    27.427] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "/dev/wskbd" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
$

Sometimes, provisioning problems occur due to an accidental xorg.conf(5) config file remaining from an earlier customization by the admin. The Xorg log file will tell you if something is provisioned from a probe (--), from a config file (**), or a default setting (==).

[J65nko]

This is what I have on a month old 6.9 snapshot:

dmesg | head -5
OpenBSD 6.9 (GENERIC.MP) #467: Thu Apr 15 14:05:19 MDT 2021
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4242419712 (4045MB)
avail mem = 4098453504 (3908MB)
random: good seed from bootblocks

After the video/display stuff is done it starts with configuring the keyboard and mouse on line 405:

   398  [    64.085] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
   399  [    67.709] (II) IGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
   400  [    67.709] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
   401  [    67.709] (II) Initializing extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
   402  [    67.709] (II) Initializing extension XFree86-DGA
   403  [    67.710] (II) Initializing extension XFree86-DRI
   404  [    67.729] (II) Initializing extension DRI2
   405  [    68.432] (II) config/wscons: checking input device /dev/wskbd
   406  [    68.432] (II) wskbd: using layout us
   407  [    68.432] (II) LoadModule: "kbd"
   408  [    68.433] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
   409  [    68.452] (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   410  [    68.452]    compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.9.0
   411  [    68.452]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
   412  [    68.452]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
   413  [    68.453] (II) Using input driver 'kbd' for '/dev/wskbd'
   414  [    68.453] (**) /dev/wskbd: always reports core events
   415  [    68.453] (**) /dev/wskbd: always reports core events
   416  [    68.453] (**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
   417  [    68.453] (**) Option "XkbRules" "base"
   418  [    68.453] (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   419  [    68.453] (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
   420  [    68.453] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "/dev/wskbd" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
   421  [    68.739] (II) config/wscons: checking input device /dev/wsmouse
   422  [    68.739] (II) LoadModule: "ws"
   423  [    68.740] (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/ws_drv.so
   424  [    68.744] (II) Module ws: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   425  [    68.744]    compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.3.0
   426  [    68.745]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
   427  [    68.745]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
   428  [    68.745] (II) Using input driver 'ws' for '/dev/wsmouse'
   429  [    68.745] (**) /dev/wsmouse: always reports core events
   430  [    68.745] (II) ws: /dev/wsmouse: debuglevel 0
   431  [    68.745] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
   432  [    68.745] (**) ws: /dev/wsmouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
   433  [    68.745] (**) ws: /dev/wsmouse: WAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7
   434  [    68.745] (**) ws: /dev/wsmouse: associated screen: 0
   435  [    68.745] (II) ws: /dev/wsmouse: minimum x position: 0
   436  [    68.745] (II) ws: /dev/wsmouse: maximum x position: 1279
   437  [    68.745] (II) ws: /dev/wsmouse: minimum y position: 0
   438  [    68.745] (II) ws: /dev/wsmouse: maximum y position: 1023
   439  [    68.745] (==) ws: /dev/wsmouse: Buttons: 7
   440  [    68.745] (**) ws: /dev/wsmouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
   441  [    68.745] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "/dev/wsmouse" (type: MOUSE, id 7)
   442  [    68.746] (**) /dev/wsmouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
   443  [    68.746] (**) /dev/wsmouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
   444  [    68.746] (**) /dev/wsmouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
   445  [    68.746] (**) /dev/wsmouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4

For my monitor, lacking support for DDC, I had to add a Monitor section.
See http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=11734 that has a script that you could adapt to add, if needed, the kbd -Keyboard input driver to the /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory.