Re: Some USB keyboard troubles.
My appologies for sending this - my problem is no longer a problem, I had
this in my send queue from last night - and it sent before I got a chance to
stop it. My ps/2 port spontaneously started working again :P (in fact - if
i dont have something plugged into it it now stuffs up - maybe i should get
it fixed eventually after all) - so I was able to get in and compile a
kernel with proper usb keyboard support.
Although I think this situation might be a problem for people trying to
install linux without the option of a ps/2 keyboard, but since my ps/2 port
has been playing up - maybe it was confusing the linux keyboard driver.
Gareth Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps@hotmail.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:40 AM
Subject: Some USB keyboard troubles.
> Hi
>
> I have been running debian unstable for a while now - and not had any
> problems - currently was running a custom 2.4.16 with ext3 patch.
> I have had a USB mouse for quite a while - and so had the USB support for
> mice installed in my kernel. Recently however my PS/2 keyboard port died
a
> relatively sudden death. Replacement of my motherboard under waranty was
> going to be 2 weeks so I decided that instead I would just invest in a USB
> keyboard.
> I dual boot with win2k - which works fine with my new keyboard - I enabled
> BIOS support for USB keyboards - so that I was able to operate my lilo and
> winnt boot loader successfully. However - booting into debian resulted in
> no keyboard activity. A bit of research led me to believe that this was
> probably because I had not enabled USB Keyboard support - and the normal
USB
> support was disabling my BIOS support. Hoped that there was some boot
> parameter i could give lilo to disable USB - but there wasnt. So I pulled
> out the trusty rescue disk. Rescue disk doesnt have USB support - so I
> thought that I would be good to go ... and compile myself a new kernel
with
> the proper support. However the only progress I made from this was
> discovering that my keyboard was being disabled a bit earlier than I had
> thought.
>
> I am getting
> Keyboard - Timeout - No AT keyboard present?
> (hmmm thats from memory - but close)
> it repeats twice before continuing onwards - the keyboard is
non-functional
> from that point onwards (as demonstrated by caps/num/scroll-lock not
> operating the lights any more)
> Rebooting back into my custom kernel - I notice that indeed the same error
> messages are being displayed - to the same effect. (although theres a set
of
> 2 characters in brackets after each line - different for each of the error
> lines.
>
> Any advice, redirection to a better place to ask even :), would be great.
>
> Gareth Pearce - nano sized contributor to open source.
>
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