On 07:56 AM 4/25/00 -0600, jc wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've been reading the posts, and but haven't tried the QQ bios (for bp6)
>still on nj. Does anyone know if the QQ bios will support usb keyboards
>
> www.linux-usb.org says the 2.3.x kernel may solve the usb problem, but not
>at command line, so it's not possible to pass parameters to lilo i.e. linux
>mem=128m correct?
>
> Haven't tried QQ or 2.3.x or a usb device let alone a keyboard, but hitting
>the mailing-lists before purchacing a usb keyboard.
>
> thanks
>
> jc
Hi,
Hmm, I've been able to use a usb keyboard with the BP6 all the way back to
the BP6's LP bios. From your description above, you seem to be indicating that
you can't type anything at the lilo prompt. If this is the case, then what is
probably the problem is a bios setting. In the BP6's bios, under the Integrated
Peripherals menu, there is a setting labelled "USB Keyboard Support Via" which
has 2 possible values OS or BIOS. If I recall, it defaults to OS, but needs to
be set to BIOS. With it set to BIOS, you can use a USB conected keyboard in
linux even if the usb support is not present. Certainly, this is how I first
used my other USB only keyboard, back before Linus first moved USB support into
the kernel. I guess I'll have to go switch things to all USB and test it out
here to make sure something hasn't changed.
-Harold
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