Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:16:52 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: MB without keyboard controller / USB-only keyboard ? |
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On 9 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 17:39, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: | > > > pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF) | > > | > > Does your BIOS do keyboard emulation ? | > | > It is Compaq EVO D510. It has merely nothing of interest in the BIOS (no | > keyboard emu). As far as I remember it contains an I845 chipset. | | Can you use the USB keyboard to configure the BIOS during boot. If so | then it almost certainly has USB bios emulation. Another trivial test | that would be useful is to stick a freedos boot floppy in the box and | see if freedos works | -
PS/2 keyboard emulation might not show up in the BIOS Setup menu. Or do you know that the BIOS doesn't contain PS/2 keyboard emulation?
Have you installed Linux on it? If so, how did you do that?
Once past this hurdle, there are patches that can help.
-- ~Randy
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