[elrepo] Keyboard ceases functioning after install of kmod-nvidia-340xx

[Jeremy Yocum]

Thanks for the quick response Phil!

Unfortunately it's not at all the same as
https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=496. (I already came across this bug
report while searching for answers before coming to the mailing list.)

1. Bug reporter says, "After installing kmod-nvidia I only get few lines of
text during boot: hid-generic: usage index exceeded hid-generic: item 0 2 2
2 parsing failed" ... The bug reporter says his boot is interrupted
*before* he gets the passphrase prompt. I don't get these lines of text,
and I get a normal boot right up until it needs input from me. It boots
like normal, it just doesn't recognize keyboard input.

2. Bug reporter says "The cursor stays still after this and boot won't
continue." My cursor does not stay still; it blinks. It just doesn't
respond to the keyboard input. Again, if I plug in a USB drive the system
reads it and spits it information about ths USB drive. The system *isn't*
frozen. It just doesn't respond to the keyboard. Again, my caps lock key
doesn't turn the light on and off (which it does even in the grub boot
menu). The keyboard just stops working.

2. There is no rhgb quiet parameter in my grub2 settings. Never has been. I
have always gone to my luks passphrase in text format. This isn't the
problem.

The problem is with the system recognizing keyboard input (in that it
doesn't). And it started the second I installed the Nvidia driver.


— Jeremy



On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 3:08 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 12/06/2020 19:00, Jeremy Yocum wrote:
> > Hello ELRepo list—
> >
> > This problem started immediately after installing the ELRepo Nvidia
> > driver, so I'm hoping one of you can help me.
> >
> > I followed the instructions for installing the ELRepo Nvidia driver for
> > 340xx. Rebooted my machine, and from that moment on my keyboard stops
> > functioning as soon as I leave the GRUB menu.
> >
> > Everything appears to boot correctly, but when it reaches "Please enter
> > passphrase for disk TOSHIBA_MK5065GSXF
> > (luks-long-volumename-etc-etc-etc)!:" the cursor just blinks. The
> > keyboard is unresponsive. The caps lock light does not come on when I
> > press caps lock. No number of key combinations register anything. If I
> > plug in a USB drive at this time the screen displays "New USB device
> > found [etc]." So the system is alive and working, I just can't use the
> > keyboard to communicate with it.
> >
> > I rebooted a few times, same issue over and over again.
> >
> > I rebooted into recovery mode from an install ISO and couldn't find
> > anything suspicious (to me) in the logs. So I figured I'd just undo the
> > only thing I'd done since the last time the keyboard worked: I
> > uninstalled all the ELRepo Nvidia packages that were dependent on each
> > other.
> > - kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64.x86_64
> > - xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx.x86_64
> > - xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs.x86_64
> > All removed.
> >
> > I rebooted, removed the grub parameters that the install added:
> > - nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouvea video=vesa:off
> > ...and hit F10 to boot.
> >
> > ... and it still gets to the "Please enter passphrase" prompt and the
> > keyboard no longer works.
> >
> > Any idea why the ELRepo Nvidia driver would cause this behavior?
> >
> > Any idea how I can get it to work again?
> >
> >
> > — Jeremy
> >
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I wonder if you have an issue similar to described in this bug report:
>
> https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=496
>
>
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