USB keyboard

[Aaron Grewell]

Have you got USB Legacy Support enabled in BIOS?  Shouldn't be
necessary, but it might help.

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 10:17, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Hope you all had a good holiday.  I spent some time trying to get my
> second PC installed with RH 8.0.  I had some problems that I was
> wondering if anyone enountered or has any ideas about:
> 
> The machine is a Compaq Presario, 700 mhz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20G HD.
>  It has a usb keyboard and PS/2 wheel mouse and ran W2K. I wanted to
> keep it dual boot in case of problems and because there were files that
> I might need on it.   These are the steps I took to get linux
> installed:
> 
> 1) It used partition magic to create the initial set of partitions and
> to squish windows into the first 7G, leaving the rest for linux.
> 
> 2) Put RH 8.0 CD and rebooted machine.  The initial screen to boot off
> the CD came up fine and I could type with no problem.  
> 
> 3) Next screen asking whether to verify the CD or skip froze solid.
> 
> I tried some other installing 7.3 using and when got a "kernel panic"
> error right off on boot.  Then I thought, hmmm, usb keyboard?  I
> removed the usb keyboard and put a generic non-usb keyboard on it;the
> 8.0 install went without a hitch.  So I know have a working 8.0 system
> that I can experiment with networking and the like.  I also have my son
> using it to browse the net :-)
> 
> But the real question for me is, why couldn't the installation deal
> with the usb keyboard?  If I plug the keyboard back in, will it work? 
> I haven't found too much on usb keyboards on the web or on the SxS
> site.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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