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display manager (PCDM): the keyboard is mostly ineffective until after a press on the Tab key #266

Closed grahamperrin closed 7 years ago

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

This issue became most noticeable after I preferred autoboot_delay="15" in /boot/loader.conf and it feels regressive.

At the FreeBSD loader: around the end of the fifteen second countdown, when it reaches '2', the keyboard is (still) not driven.

Also after my most recent log out from KDE, there was (if I'm not mistaken) a remarkable delay – at the display manager – before the OS responded properly to the keyboard. 

$ uname -v ; uname -n
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #12 5ef9376(drm-next-4.7): Thu Dec 29 16:26:36 UTC 2016     root@gauntlet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook850g2-trueos.university.brighton.ac.uk
$

I suspect that the problem began after an update from 5ef9376 to 5ef9376 (an update, but no change to the commit reference).

Environment

$ cat /etc/rc.conf
rc_verbose="YES"
rc_interactive="YES"
rc_depend_strict="YES"
rc_parallel="NO"
rc_crashed_start="YES"
rc_logger="YES"
rc_log_path="/var/log/rc.log"
zfs_enable="YES"
kldload_i915kms="i915kms"
kldload_vbox="vboxdrv"
dbus_enable="YES"
# https://github.com/trueos/freebsd/commit/0af2dbd9b11c7ac54baef4b3bcd762f85bd3a658
linux_enable="YES"
wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
# wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
ifconfig_em0="193.62.168.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="193.62.168.1"
hostname="momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook850g2-trueos.university.brighton.ac.uk"
sshd_enable="YES"
vboxnet_enable="YES"
kldload_nvidia="nvidia-modeset nvidia"
ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
$ 
$ cat /boot/loader.conf
# * IMPORTANT NOTICE *
# If using GRUB, run 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' after making
# changes to this file
###############################################################################
crypto_load="YES"
aesni_load="YES"
geom_eli_load="YES"
# Tune ZFS Arc Size - Change to adjust memory used for disk cache
vfs.zfs.arc_max="8192M"
zfs_load="YES"
# boot_mute="NO"
autoboot_delay="15"
$ 
$ cat /boot/loader.conf.trueos 
# Kernel Options
kern.ipc.shmseg=1024
kern.ipc.shmmni=1024
kern.maxproc=10000

# Accept the wifi firmware license
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
legal.realtek.license_ack=1

# Load File-System Support
opensolaris_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
tmpfs_load="YES"

# Disable acpi throttle by default, fixes issues with powerd and later AMDs
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"

# Show keystokes for passphrases
kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=2 

# Speed up boot
kern.cam.scsi_delay="500"

# Skip the often slow memory tests in VMs
hw.memtest.tests=0

# Load geom support
crypto_load="YES"
geom_eli_load="YES"

# Enable hardware crypto
aesni_load="YES"

# Enable NewCons / vt
kern.vty=vt

# Disable some labels
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.ufsid.enable="0"

# Don't power devices with no driver
hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=3

# Disable the ipv6 auto_linklocal.
# If you use the lagg interface you may want to set this in /boot/loader.conf
#net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal="0"

# Set ipfw to default accept
net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept="1"

# Allow more than one pass through firewall (for pipes, etc)
net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

# Increase maxdata for net.graph, fixes issues with scp / ssh wile running VirtualBox
net.graph.maxdata=65536

# Set the brand/loader logo
loader_brand="trueos"
# loader_logo="trueos"
loader_menu_title="catch me while you can"

# Enable Synaptics for touchpads
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"

# Enable Elantech touchpad support
hw.psm.elantech_support="1"

# Speed up boot time
autoboot_delay="01"

# Enable the TrueOS splash-screen
# boot_mute="YES"
$

pciconf -lv.txt

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

At the display manager screen, after log out

Not limited to KDE; symptoms here are also reproduced following every log out from Lumina. Most remarkable:

Workaround

At the FreeBSD loader

The tab key is not a workaround.

No visible response, at the indicator within the keyboard, to keying Caps Lock. It's as if truly, the keyboard is not driven in good time.

I wonder whether we have two separate issues here.

pkgdemon commented 7 years ago

Not released yet. Not even pushed to UNSTABLE.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

Understood, thanks … and more recently reproduced with trueos-desktop-201701042114 on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #12 5ef9376(drm-next-4.7): Thu Dec 29 16:26:36 …

pkgdemon commented 7 years ago

Reopening after push to unstable

pkgdemon commented 7 years ago

Posted to wrong ticket the first time. Ignore deleted message.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

I wonder whether we have two separate issues here.

We probably do.

Keyboard on USB apparently not driven in good time at startup, …

First impressions of trueos-desktop-201701060022 on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #13 42158f1(drm-next-4.7): Thu Jan 5 22:37:19 UTC 2017 root@gauntlet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC:

– I'll continue to test. If reproducible, I should probably create a separate issue.

Keyboard on USB … only partially usable when the display manager reappears after log out

… and when the manager first appears.

Early impressions of trueos-desktop-201701060022 on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #13 42158f1(drm-next-4.7): Thu Jan 5 22:37:19 UTC 2017 root@gauntlet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC:

Most easily reproducible wherever the manager lists two or more users:

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

With the change of title of this issue (reduction from two issues, one of which was transient, to one):

display manager (PCDM): the keyboard is mostly ineffective until after a press on the Tab key

The workaround (Tab) is trivially easy when known, but not intuitive when unknown.

If this issue creeps into STABLE then some customers may be frustrated by the sense of falling at the first hurdle. No response to Return or Enter, when a user's name is selected, feels like an obstacle.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

This seems to be fixed. Please, in which repo might I find the commit?

From a boot of the fixed environment: 

$ about
  ______                   ____  _____
 /_  __/______  _____     / __ \/ ___/ 
  / / / ___/ / / / _ \   / / / /\__ \ 
 / / / /  / /_/ /  __/  / /_/ /___/ / 
/_/ /_/   \__,_/\___/   \____//____/  

General info:
       Host:...............momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook850g2-trueos.university.brighton.ac.uk
       User:...............grahamperrin
       Uptime:.............8 mins
       FreeBSD kernel ver:.12.0-CURRENT
       FreeBSD world ver:..12.0-CURRENT
       FreeBSD git branch:.drm-next
       FreeBSD git rev:....3dbce2a
       TrueOS ver:.........TrueOS-Desktop-201701261715
       Arch:...............amd64
       Kernel ident:.......GENERIC
       Bootloader:.........BSD
       Bootloader type:....EFI
       CPU:................Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
       CPU cores:..........4
       Memory (free/avail):13529 / 16384 Mb
       Package set:........CUSTOM
       Desktop environment:Lumina
       X11 Driver:.........modesetting_drv.so 
       OSS Driver:.........pcm1: <Realtek (0x0280) (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> (play/rec) default
       WIFI Driver:........iwm0
$
beanpole135 commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/trueos/pcdm/commit/c66a6648d1a913059d716fdc03d6fc4ebc30f369