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Keyboard not working with GuixSD on Apple Macbook Air 6,2

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Jessica Tallon <tsyesika <at> tsyesika.se>, 20433 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20433: Keyboard not working on laptop with guixSD
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:36:02 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> 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’.

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