Some More GhettoBook Questions: Not recognizing the keyboard and trackpad.

[microchip13]

First, let me say, the ghettobook was a pain.


The inverter cable went out so I had to take it apart, solder it back together and then reassemble it.

After doing this, the hard drive went out, so I replaced it with the only 2.5 inch HD I've got.


a 4 Gig 12mm(Yes, I know. It was a pain fitting it in.) Hard Drive.

I installed 10.4 over target mode from my G5.




So, the onboard keyboard and trackpad don't work. External things do, but seeing as it's a laptop, I would like the onboard IO devices to work.


I reset the NVRAM, what else should I look to do?


TiA!

[Carm]

Reseat connectors. More Pain, what do you expect, its Ghetto

[microchip13]

I've reseated it several times. They keyboard works in Openfirmware, I know that for sure.

[Ken Sp.]

External keyboard and mouse work?

[GGD]

[quote microchip13]I've reseated it several times. They keyboard works in Openfirmware, I know that for sure.
If the keyboard works in OpenFirmware then it sounds like the HW is fine and it's an OS issue. They keyboard also must have worked in order to get it into Target Disk Mode.

Test the trackpad out before the OS loads by holding the Option key at boot and see if you can move the cursor when the drive select screen comes up.

Where did the 10.4 install disk come from? Is it a retail version or the one that shipped with your G5? Might be something strange about with the OS version on that install disk if it was CPU specific.

[iaJim]

Do you have an OS instal disk of any appropriate generation you can install? I'd try that, not that I know much about what you're doing.

[microchip13]

It's a full retail version of 10.4. I was thinking it might have to do with not loading some drivers that aren't necessary for a desktop but are for the iBook.

EDIT:
Trackpad works at the OS select screen.