usb keyboard

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-01-10 16:13:03

Hello everyone.

I found your distro on distrowatch, very interesting concept, nice set of packages... I downloaded iso, burned, booted it, and....

keyboard doesn't work, it's an USB keyboard, I had similiar problem with Slackware 10.2 once, but there I was able to fix it, on arch linux I can't do anything - just boot

Do you have any tips how to fix it?

Kern · 2006-01-10 18:30:51

just to confirm USB keyboards do work on Arch, altho i set mine up initially with a PS2 connecting one ages ago and then swapped. maybe its a driver loading issue from initial install. have you a ps2 to connect til it all gets going ?

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-01-13 12:48:35

But is there any way to install Arch Linux on komputer with usb keyboard only? Is there a file on CD I could change or boot option I could try?

Cam · 2006-01-13 13:49:22

I had the same problem with the 0.7 ISO. I was able to flog a PS2 one to get passed the setup but short of that I've never seen a solution

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-01-13 14:02:53

But there is no PS2 on this computer, without usbkeyboard module I am dommed.

brain0 · 2006-01-13 15:53:47

So this means you can't even boot your kernel and are stuck with the boot: prompt?

Do you have an usb legacy option in your BIOS?
After the kernel is loaded, I have usb keyboard support (just checked with the 0.7.1 base iso).

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-01-13 16:15:13

Of course I can boot kernel, because keyboard is working before boot, it stops working after boot - when I see shell prompt.
Without that it would not be possible to use Lilo or Grub on that computer

Jefg60 · 2006-01-13 16:29:57

I dont know exactly what to suggest, but here's how I installed arch using usb keyboard start to finish. Some of this is because theres an issue with USB on my particular motherboard (MSI 865PE platinum).

First of all the 0.71 CD will not boot, so I used the 0.7 CD to do an FTP install. This brings with it its own problems to do with changing /dev/discs etc to /dev/sda etc. I'm sure you can handle that though.

The thing that got my USB to work was blacklisting EHCI_HCD and manually loading the other USB modules in rc.conf as soon as possible (ie before the first reboot).

After that, my usb keyboard hasnt been a problem.

phrakture · 2006-01-13 16:57:15

0.7.1 works fine for me with a usb keyboard - only problem I had (on arch and *many* other live CDs) was that the bios was flaky and would hang on boot (saying something about ehci hand-off) - I had to disable USB 2.0 in the bios to boot from the CD.

lilsirecho · 2006-01-14 02:56:49

Found this in the forum search:
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i3839 wrote:
I have absolutely no clue.

Random tip: make sure you disabled legacy USB emulation or anything similar in the BIOS.

Jefg60 · 2006-01-14 11:32:16

lilsirecho wrote:

Found this in the forum search:
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i3839 wrote:
I have absolutely no clue.
Random tip: make sure you disabled legacy USB emulation or anything similar in the BIOS.

now why didnt I think of that? Just removed my MOD_BLACKLIST(ehci_hcd) in rc.conf and tried disabling legacy support, and my problem went away!

Although, its a moot point, because now I cant select anything in the grub bootloader menu (keyboard doesnt work).

Not a problem until I want to boot into Windows XP to play a game

lilsirecho · 2006-01-14 16:39:08

One further note regarding my experience with Kde.

Slow keys can be programmed and it could well fake you out about the keyboard performance, actually working but slow to respond.

josarn · 2006-01-19 18:28:39

I had some trouble with my usb keyboard. After searching the forum it seemed it could be a bios issue or a kernel module issue. I couldnt acces bios configuration with the usb keyboard so i had the problem narrowed down to a bios issue. I used my ps/2 keyboard to disable legacy usb support but that didnt work. I enabled usb boot and that did the trick. Once i did that the usb keyboard blended in Arch perfectly without a single change to configuration. I run gdm from inittab not as a daemon, by the way.

I am writing this reply with the new usb keyboard, is it more readable in a usbish kind of way?

Jacek Poplawski · 2006-04-10 14:04:17

I described my experiences here:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3762

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