Re: USB Keyboard problem

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 09/30/03


Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:30:06 -0400

On 29 Sep 2003 15:37:24 -0700, Kim Gryt?yr
  <kim@grytoyr.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have some problems with my USB Keyboard. It's a Logitech "Internet
> Navigator" Keyboard. When I'm booting Linux (Redhat 9.0) from CD (or
> just regular boot) my keyboard does not work every time.
>
> When I'm booting from CD, the keyboard works just fine at the
> boot-screen (the screen with options like install, upgrade,
> rescue-mode etc..). But when the login-screen in RH shows up, me
> keyboard does not work. The CAPS LOCK LED is off.
>
> Excactly the same thing happens when I do a regular boot. Keyboard
> works just fine in GRUB, but not when I get to the login-screen.
>
> Sometimes when I make changes in BIOS and then reboot it works just
> fine, and I can't understand why. I doesn't have to change anything
> either.. I can't find any reasons why it works only sometimes..
>
> This also happens when trying to install i.e. Gentoo, BeOS, and
> Windows. These problems does never show up in Win XP, only under
> install.
>
> Both USB Support and USB Support for DOS are enabled in BIOS.
>
Turn off "USB Support for DOS".

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