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Re: debian installation problem: AT keyboard detection with ASUS-A7A266,



On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 04:22, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> [...]
> > just the ps2 port plugged in, or with both plugged in.  Doesn't matter,
> > the motherboard supports the USB keyboard and the ps2 controller fine,
> > of course).
> 
> Wait, you mean, the ps2 keyboard does _not_ work? This is extremely
> ugly.
> 

Yes.  This is really the source of my entire problem.  The ps2 keyboard
will not work in these certain scenarios.  I've only been trying to get
USB going during the installation process because of this fact.  Without
USB, I have no human interface at all. =/

> Nice. Since most people are booting from CD (no need for keypresses
> before the module is loaded) or can specify the "keytimer" option at
> bootprompt, I do not care.> #include <hallo.h>

That sounds like a solution to me.

> > I did some more reading, woody looks right for me.  I downloaded and
> > burnt the net-inst cd for woody (latest version: 3.0pre 2002-02-15 (b-f
> > 3.0.19) just to try it out.  While I know that booting from this CD-ROM
> > will not fix my USB problems on this computer, I will use this
> > installation on another box of mine as a practice/trial run.
> 
> If you wanna help to test the new images, try David's recent images from
> people.debian.org/~dwhedon
> 

Thanks, I'll probably do just that. =)

Travis Bradshaw
tbradshaw@sbcglobal.net


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