"BIOS Legacy USB Support"-emulated USB keyboard works in text-mode but not in X
I have a USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) connected to an SBC MediaGX (a Cyrix
MediaGX oneboard machine) running debian/testing (that's sid, I believe),
installed within the previous two weeks. Kernel is 2.4.22 with no patches and
no USB support.
I installed X and KDE yesterday, and everything runs fine. There's just one
problem:
When X starts up (both when I run kdm and just simple "X"), the keyboard stops
responding. Not even "ctrl-shift-backspace" works.
In KDM, the cursor blinks, so X apparently doesn't hang.
Also, if I log in from another computer via ssh I can safely terminate (kill)
the KDM or X process, and once I'm back in text-mode, the keyboard responds
perfectly again.
I've only seen a related problem reported one other place
(<http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2002/08/1241.html> - the posting refers
to the keyboard not working during installation, which in SUSE 8 normally means
X), and there was no answer to that posting.
(As a footnote: I'd like to keep the "BIOS legacy keyboard" option activated,
as I need it to manipulate the BIOS settings, and attaching a PS/2 keyboard
involves dismantling the machine. Just opting for a normal USB HID solution is
therefore not an option.)
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