On Sunday 20 August 2006 14:33, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:23 +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote: > > On 8/20/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > So I find an option in my BIOS that says enable USB keyboard > > > support, turn it on, and grub works perfectly, but now linux > > > doesn't see the keyboard. > > > > What does lsusb say if you boot the computer with "USB keyboard > > enabled" in the BIOS? Is it any different than if you boot it with > > "usb keyboard disabled"? > > Looks like it isn't a consistent problem. If I go through > a USB hub, sometimes it sees the keyboard sometimes > it doesn't (same for mouse apparently). If I plug them > directly into one of the usb ports on the motherboard, > it always works fine (sigh... why does all this plug & > play "it just works" stuff never work? :-). > > The motherboard BIOS never seems to have a problem seeing the > keyboard via the hub so something about the linux usb > bootstrapping must have some kind of timing problem. > Grrr.... I know I had problems a while back like that. Using an unpowered hub resulted in USB devices that had worked, when plugged straight into the port, failing to work when going through the hub. I bought a powered hub (separate psu), and the problem went away. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
