USB keyboard with SuSE 9

From: Martin Hierholzer (mhier_at_web.de)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Hello!

    I am using SuSE 9 on my Desktop PC (Athlon XP, ASUS mainboard A7V333) and I
    want to use a (noname) USB keyboard. According to kernel documentation (in
    kernel source directory) the kernel use by SuSE 9 (2.4.21-99-athlon) should
    support USB HID like my keyboard. I have an USB/PS2 combo-mouse, whitch is
    currently connected to PS2 port, because connecting it to USB seems to
    cause yet more problems. I have disconnected any other USB device, too.

    When I simply boot from SuSE boot cdrom with the USB keyboard and no PS2
    keyboard connected, the keyboard is only working until the installation
    procedure tries to enable the USB devices (witch takes an unusual long
    time). The installation routine starts shortly after that an X server, but
    this takes a very long time, too (and the keyboard is still not working
    there).

    I can actually use the USB keyboard under my running SuSE 9 installation,
    but only after recompiling the kernel with only boot protocol support for
    USB HIDs enabled, and adding the following lines to /etc/rc.d/boot.local:
      /etc/rc.d/hwscan start
      /etc/rc.d/hotplug start
    These lines seem to be neccessary, because SuSE normally runs the hardware
    scan (hwscan, this is no service but only a programm executed at boot time,
    as I know) after starting up the hotplug service.

    I think this is a little bit too much work for using a simple keyboard, and
    - according to kernel documentation - it provides only limited HID support
    (no special keys are working, but this does not really matter). Is there
    any better (and shorter) way to solve this problem?

    Regards
    M@rtin

    P.S: I am not neccessarily bound to SuSE. If there is another distribution
    with better hardware support and a good configuration tool (like Yast), I
    would be glad to hear about it ;)

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