Re: Problem installing woody w/usb keyboard
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Adam Di Carlo wrote on Sun Dec 30, 2001 um 12:32:54PM:
>
> > In any case, we already do support that vast majority of machines
> > which have USB keyboard support enabled in the BIOS such they are
> > simulating a normal keyboard. I've tested this personally and it
> > works fine. See your BIOS documentation.
>
> The emulation must be enabled, of course. Otherwise you won't be able to
> press Return on the Syslinux prompt.
> But this emulation seems to fail with Linux in many cases. I discovered
> the following behaviour on my Athlon machines:
>
> - if the kernel has no USB support compiled in and only a USB keyboard
> is attached, the BIOS emulation seems to work in few cases. Sometimes
> the emulation begins to work some minutes after the system start.
Well, you say a few, but on the machine I was testing on, there was no
problem. This is what I was asking Chris to document in the "bios
setup" section of the i386 installation manual.
> - if the kernel has no USB support and an USB _and_ a usuall AT
> keyboard is attached, the BIOS emulation seems to work in most cases.
> - If the usb{,-core,-uhci,-ohci,kbd} drivers are compiled in,
> everything works fine except of the one dumb prompt to insert the
> root disk which appears before the USB stuff is loaded. See
> http://bugs.debian.org/122613 for details.
>
> Mainboards are well-known Epox models.
>
> > Chris, this needs documenting in the "perparing your hardware" section!
>
> Yes. But I think most people have allready enabled it, otherwise they
> cannot install any operating system.
It's dangerous to make assumptions. The machine I was testing on did
not have this enabled by default.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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