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Author: Gregory Nowak
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To: Gregory Nowak via Dng
Subject: [DNG] solved: Re: usb keyboard detection in initramfs
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 02:57:11PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> The problem is that my usb keyboard doesn't seem to be detected in the
> initramfs. Once I unlock the partition from the serial console, boot
> proceeds as expected, and everything is fine.


Turns out the problem was that the kernel can't output to multiple
consoles. I thought it could output to all consoles specified as
console parameters to the kernel. After specifying tty1 as the only
console in cmdline.txt, I rebooted, waited a couple of minutes to be
sure, and typed in the password to devrypt mmcblk0p2 on the usb
keyboard. Lo and behold, about 30 seconds after that I heard orca
announce "screen reader on" through the rpi's 3.5M audio jack.

For the record, the only usb modules I have in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules at this point are:

usbhid, hid, and hid_generic in that order. Thanks for the suggestion
anyway Tito.

Greg


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