[BL] USB keyboard

baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
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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