Bug#703420: grub-pc: USB keyboard does not work when BIOS keyboard interface is not provided

[Paul Menzel]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.99-27
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Debian folks,


using Debian Sid/unstable with grub-pc 1.99-27 on an ASRock E350M1 with
coreboot with SeaBIOS 1.7.2.1 as firmware replacement and disabling the
BIOS keyboard interface in SeaBIOS, my USB keyboard does not work under
GRUB 2. Building SeaBIOS with the BIOS keyboard interface everything
works as expected.

Talking to the GRUB developer phcoder he claims this is fixed in more
recent versions of GRUB 2 and that 1.99-27 is just too old.

I am going to try the version 2.00-13 from Debian experimental later to
see if this claim is true in my case.


Thanks,

Paul

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  grub-common            1.99-27
ii  grub-pc-bin            1.99-27
ii  grub2-common           1.99-27
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu3

grub-pc recommends no packages.

grub-pc suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub changed:
GRUB_DEFAULT=10
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet noisapnp"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rdinitrd=/sbin/bootchartd initcall_debug printk.time=y init=/sbin/bootchartd drm_kms_helper.poll=0 drm.debug=0x06"
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="uhci ehci"
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