USB Keyboard and the kernel

Lasitus · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 6:46 pm Post subject: USB Keyboard and the kernel

Hello,

I installed RC1 fine with my current setup, a USB Logitech keyboard and mouse connected to a USB KVM. After the installation, I didn't have a keyboard and mouse. I messed with the kernel to try to fix this problem. I enabled USB HID support and various other things I thought were necessary to enable USB keyboard and mouse support within the kernel. Upon completion of this, my keyboard and mouse were detected and looked like they loaded correctly. Once I got to the loggon though, the keyboard no longer worked. Am I missing something?

Thanks

phong · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 6:50 pm Post subject:

Did you enable mouse and keyboard support under "Input core support"? Also, there are some BIOS settings than affect USB keyboards, you may want to twaddle those a bit.
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Lasitus · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:21 pm Post subject:

1. Yes, I did enable mouse and keyboard support there.
2. Why would I need to tweak the BIOS? It worked for the install and works till gentoo boots.

Lasitus · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

ok, I figured it out. I had enabled UHCI Alternate instead of the reguar one. Once I unchecked the alternate, the regular one appeared. After checking that off, the keyboard worked fine.

Thanks