Also, On my computer, I had to enable the setting: USB legacy devices It may be called something else in other BIOS settings, but yours may be similar. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:34 AM Subject: Re: usb keyboards I don't think there's anything special you have to do...used a compaq "internet" whatever that means USB keyboard with a linux machine a while back and didn't have any problems. Think I was running slackware 9.0 on it with stock kernel and it all worked fine. On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:17:46PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote: > Folks, was curious, I have a machine that currently has a keyboard > connected to the ps2 port. I believe its possible to change the bios > to see a usb keyboard, but have to check into that. In any event, > assuming I can do this, what do I need to do to get the kernel to see > I'm using a usb keyboard; anything special beyond adding that into > the kernel? Is there any problems I may encounter by doing this? I'd > like to use a kvm instead of dragging a keyboard out and balancing it > just to use my Linux box. > > tnx > > Scott > s.howell at verizon.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it. -- from Lars Wirzenius' .sig _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
