Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with USB-Keyboard at Install

[Chris Faulkner]

Then again it could be something like what I was experiencing.  I have
a MS Mouse and it would not work in FreeBSD.  I inquired about it on a
mailing list and they said that there wasn't any driver support for
that particular MS mouse.  It could be a simple matter of no driver
support in the OS.  Try a Logitech keyboard or some other keyboard.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
>> 5bdc1c8b0908030920p36508cf8n8b95915c367a18e6@××××××××××.com, excerpted
>> below, on  Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:20:35 -0700:
>>
>>> Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>>>> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted:
>>>>> Lance Lassetter<lancelassetter@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you tried enabling evdev in make.conf under INPUT_DEVICES?
>>>>>
>>>>> How could he do this when he's trying to boot from an install CD?
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, mount the ISO using loopback, make the change, umount, burn?
>>
>>>    So I guess you are suggesting that someone doing a Gentoo install,
>>> and finding that the install CD fails to work, is then possibly going to
>>> modify the install CD?
>>>
>>>    Beyond that what make.conf are we speaking about? As I asked over
>>> the weekend, and as far as I can tell, there is no make.conf on the
>>> install CD to modify. (With the keyboard we don't have because we're
>>> running USB unless this is a completely different installation on the
>>> same machine, or we're doing it on a different machine.)
>>>
>>>    Maybe I'm underestimating INPUT_DEVICES but I thought that was only
>>> for xorg-server which isn't running when the install CD finishes booting
>>> is it? Even if the OP had done what you suggested, had enough knowledge
>>> of Gentoo to think about creating a make.conf file and placing "keyboard
>>> mouse evdev" in it, burned a new copy, and then rebooted, what changes
>>> about the environment that is running at that point?
>>>
>>>    I'm really confused and I know this because you are, no joke here,
>>> one of my Gentoo guiding lights! Enlighten me! Please!
>>
>> Your points are valid (well, I'll take that guiding light thing at face
>> value, thanks, but the rest anyway is valid, AFAIK), but that's not
>> really what I was commenting on.
>
> You should always assume GLS (Guiding Light Status) when conversing
> with me. :-)
>
>>
>> Seeing as he had already solved the problem,
>
> Which I had not read at the time I responded....
>
>> I was jumping into less
>> serious mode, and the bit about not writing to a CD struck my fancy.
>>
>
> Fair enough.
>
> I'm interested in the problems of installing Gentoo, whatever they
> tend to be, as I'm one of the ever dwindling number of vocal Gentoo
> supporters in the pro-audio community. (They are all leaving for Arch
> or Ubuntu variants it seems) One acquaintance ask me about installing
> 64-bit Gentoo last week and specifically asked about new hardware
> issues. Seemed to me that the OP's USB keyboard issue might be fairly
> common so I wanted to try to solve it here, if possible. Seems it
> wasn't unfortunately.
>
> Anyway, good to know that I'm not *totally* off base with my view of
> what these little bits of software do, and your point is interesting.
> One thing that would be possible would be to do the setup as you
> suggest, then zcat the running config to a .config file, go to the web
> and get kernel source, compile the source with any changes required,
> and then (possibly) install that kernel into whatever part of the iso
> image necessary to make it an option for booting.
>
> Still, installing from some other distro that actually works seems
> easier and why, by the way, does that other distro support
> installation for the OP when Gentoo does not? Seems strange to me....
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>