Hi,

I am trying to incorporate the IRQ1 handler used in this thread http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=6206&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 but for some reason the keyboard interrupt never gets fired, and I have proved this by trying to halt the cpu under the keyboard label. IRQ0 is working fine and this updates the screen.

I am running it in bochs, do I need to change some additional bochs config for the keyboard?

Any help would be much appreciated.

See post below for solution..

Show your code.

Right as an additional test I have just added the code alongside a basic bootloader and it does the same thing. The clock screen output ticks fine but the keyboard IRQ is not firing when keys are pressed.

There are a few possibilities here. Is there definitely an IDT entry for IRQ 1? Has it been remapped, if so where? Have you explicitly enabled IRQ 1? Which other IRQs are enabled and are they being serviced? (failure to correctly acknowledge can prevent other IRQs being triggered)

Mystery solved! Originallly I had written a keyboard handler which constantly polled the keyboard input port, but before I started to poll I cleared the keyboard buffer using the below since a user had to enter a command to reach the PM/LM section after booting to RM:



I have added this just before my main LM loop after initializing my PIC / custom interrupts and now IRQ1 is fired and can read from the keyboard buffer. It turns out after some research that if you don't clear the keyboard buffer the keyboard won't raise another IRQ.