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yauser

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 2

PS/2 keyboard not detected at startup.

Hi,

I recently installed ArchLinux (fully updated) on a Intel E8400 with DP35DP motherboard. If I connect a PS/2 keyboard via a PS/2->USB cable, this keyboard is not detected by the OS, although the BIOS can. Legacy USB support is enabled in BIOS.

The funny part is, if I later connect a USB keyboard and then disconnect it (without doing anything else with it), this makes the first keyboard work just fine!

Any suggestions? (I'd like to continue using the PS/2 keyboard!)

TIA,
-MD.

[Edit: This is only about the console, no X involved. There are no PS/2 ports on the system.]

Last edited by yauser (2008-08-22 14:15:24)

rooloo

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 218

Re: PS/2 keyboard not detected at startup.

The funny part is, if I later connect a USB keyboard and then disconnect it (without doing anything else with it), this makes the first keyboard work just fine!

sounds to me like you are missing a module that needs to be loaded on boot-up, specified in rc.conf. Once you hook up the second keyboard maybe hal is loading neccesary module, making the first keyboard work. idk, just a guess!

yauser

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 2

Re: PS/2 keyboard not detected at startup.

The funny part is, if I later connect a USB keyboard and then disconnect it (without doing anything else with it), this makes the first keyboard work just fine!

sounds to me like you are missing a module that needs to be loaded on boot-up, specified in rc.conf. Once you hook up the second keyboard maybe hal is loading neccesary module, making the first keyboard work. idk, just a guess!

Hal was not enabled (I'd just installed core and updated). But it is there now.

11010010110

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 284

Re: PS/2 keyboard not detected at startup.

do lsmod before and after and then add the missing one to modprobe.conf