[BL] USB keyboard
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Fri May 30 22:23:49 EDT 2008
> My fastest computer has a dead PS/2 keyboard port (independent of OS) but
> works with USB keyboard. The PS/2 keyboard just stopped working today.
> (The hard drive finished dying yesterday after not being able to boot).
>
> In BL2 (2.4.31 kernel, with and without usbcore, input and usbkbd modules)
> and in BL3 (P1 2.2.26 kernel) the USB keyboard works for a while then
> suddenly I get messages Timeout: keyboard - AT keyboard not present?
There was a site mentioning that USB keyboard driver sent commands to the
PS/2 keyboard driver - not a good sign (but not relevant as it turns out).
I tried in BIOS changing PCI IRQs, APIC, ACIP, etc., to no avail.
A different keyboard did the trick. Out of the frying pan into the fire
of genuine Microsoft ergonomic dual-plug (dead PS/2 plug good USB). Think
crooked. Type B left-handed. Don't even think of using arrow keys blind.
Nobody in the 50 hits I found for this timeout problem mentioned a bad
keyboard.
People do not give away WORKING USB keyboards. THe third was was dead.
Sindi
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