"BIOS Legacy USB Support"-emulated USB keyboard works in text-mode but not in X

From: Jørgen H. Seland (stgeorge_at_start.no)
Date: 11/13/03

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:08:38 +0100 (CET)

    I have a USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) connected to an SBC MediaGX (a Cyrix
    MediaGX oneboard machine) running debian/testing (that's sid, I believe),
    installed within the previous two weeks. Kernel is 2.4.22 with no patches and
    no USB support.

    I installed X and KDE yesterday, and everything runs fine. There's just one
    problem:

    When X starts up (both when I run kdm and just simple "X"), the keyboard stops
    responding. Not even "ctrl-shift-backspace" works.

    In KDM, the cursor blinks, so X apparently doesn't hang.

    Also, if I log in from another computer via ssh I can safely terminate (kill)
    the KDM or X process, and once I'm back in text-mode, the keyboard responds
    perfectly again.

    I've only seen a related problem reported one other place
    (<http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2002/08/1241.html> - the posting refers
    to the keyboard not working during installation, which in SUSE 8 normally means
    X), and there was no answer to that posting.

    (As a footnote: I'd like to keep the "BIOS legacy keyboard" option activated,
    as I need it to manipulate the BIOS settings, and attaching a PS/2 keyboard
    involves dismantling the machine. Just opting for a normal USB HID solution is
    therefore not an option.) 

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