Bug 16497 – keyboard not detected on initial boot

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description lanewhoy 2003-02-27 15:20:39 UTC]

The key board is not functional during the initial boot from the LiveCD for
1.4rc3.  The install CD for Slackware 8.1 boots fine, and the keyboard works.
Was planning install minimal Slackware and bootstrap gentoo from Slackware and
stage 1

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-03-12 16:04:13 UTC]

Could you please give some system specs?

[Comment 2 lanewhoy 2003-03-14 16:25:00 UTC]

The system is a Dell Dimension 8250 with a pentium 4 processor, 512 MB RAM,
and a 60 Gb hard disk.  It also has a DVD/CD-RW drive.  The keyboard and mouse
are both Dell brand, and the mouse is an IMPS/2-type mouse.  The system comes
with a SoundBlaster sound card, and nVidia GeForce video card with 128 Mb RAM

[Comment 3 lanewhoy 2003-03-26 14:12:00 UTC]

I found out still more information when a kernel recompile made my keyboard
unusable.  The cause was enabling the uhci modules in the kernel config; the system started looking for a USB keyboard over the PS/2 keyboard once it got the
USB set up.  I recompiled without the UHCI options, and everything works.

[Comment 4 lanewhoy 2003-03-28 10:08:25 UTC]

Go ahead and mark this as resolved.  I thought to look in the BIOS set-up for the
Dell Dimension 8250, and turned off the built-in USB controller.  The kernel on the CD then picked up the PS/2 keyboard instead of expecting a USB keyboard

[Comment 5 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-11-12 07:34:43 UTC]

as per comments.