On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:43:17PM +0000, Alan Lord wrote: > Hi All, > > I have ordered a new KVM which will use a USB I/F to the PCs for the > Keyboard and Mouse. Up until tomorrow (when it should arrive) I have > only ever used the normal PS/2 interfaces. > > Simple question: what - if anything - do I need to be aware of when I > switch over to USB on my LFS box? I guess I will need to re-configure > the kernel for the Human Interface Stuff but if I build it in (rather > than modules) will I be safe and not need to go down the > udev/hotplug/autodetect malarkey? > > Any comments greatfully received. > Note that perhaps not all of your USB ports will be able to utilize the keyboard at BIOS time. I have 8 USB ports on one of my machines, and only some can be used. There are 2 different USB controller chips- all the ports connected to one are usable, but not the other, at bios time. That means that I need to use those ports if I want to make selections via GRUB.
Aside from that, it all works flawlessly once the correct HID stuff is built in. //Andrew -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
