I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community edition. My keyboard and
mouse connect through USB (keyboard is HP, mouse is Logitec). Both
keyboard and mouse worked fine during installation, and they also work
fine during GRUB boot process.

However, once I get into Linux, no input is received from the
keyboard. This happens under X when I boot normally, and also under a
shell when I select failesafe boot. Under Windows everything works,
and when I boot from a live cd (Kinneret, kernel release 2.4.20-xfs)
the keyboard also work (I couldn't test the mouse since for some
reason X fails to load in this cd).

I've been trying different boot options, and searched and googled but
to no avail.

- Is there anything I should look at (e.g., log file)?
- Boot options?
- Any other ideas on how to make the keyboard work?

My motherboard is Asus AvN266-VM (AMD processor). I'm a little bit new
in this business, so please forgive if I'm not providing enough
information or am asking silly questions ;-). Any directions would be
appreciated.

TIA,

Amit

Amit wrote:

> I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community edition. My keyboard and
> mouse connect through USB (keyboard is HP, mouse is Logitec). Both
> keyboard and mouse worked fine during installation, and they also work
> fine during GRUB boot process.
> 
> However, once I get into Linux, no input is received from the
> keyboard.

Disable kudzu, if it is used. This symptom is common in distributions that
use kudzu during boot-up.

1. Get into runlevel 1 if you can.

2. As root:

# chkconfig kudzu off

Mandrake may have a different way to accomplish this, the above is
Fedora-specific. I apologize if this doesn't work on Mandrake.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote in message news:<10mr9vjfm2iie26@corp.supernews.com>...
> Amit wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community edition. My keyboard and
> > mouse connect through USB (keyboard is HP, mouse is Logitec). Both
> > keyboard and mouse worked fine during installation, and they also work
> > fine during GRUB boot process.
> > 
> > However, once I get into Linux, no input is received from the
> > keyboard.
> 
> Disable kudzu, if it is used. This symptom is common in distributions that
> use kudzu during boot-up.
> 
> 1. Get into runlevel 1 if you can.
> 
> 2. As root:
> 
> # chkconfig kudzu off
> 

Thanks, however, it seems kudzu is not used by mandrake 10.1. I
checked with a ps2 keyboard and it worked just fine, and I assume that
10.1 has all the required modules (i.e., for usb and hid). I'll
install prevoius version to see if the problem still exists.

Amit

> Mandrake may have a different way to accomplish this, the above is
> Fedora-specific. I apologize if this doesn't work on Mandrake.

Amit wrote:
> Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote in message news:<10mr9vjfm2iie26@corp.supernews.com>...
> 
>>Amit wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community edition. My keyboard and
>>>mouse connect through USB (keyboard is HP, mouse is Logitec). Both
>>>keyboard and mouse worked fine during installation, and they also work
>>>fine during GRUB boot process.
>>>
>>>However, once I get into Linux, no input is received from the
>>>keyboard.
>>
>>Disable kudzu, if it is used. This symptom is common in distributions that
>>use kudzu during boot-up.
>>
>>1. Get into runlevel 1 if you can.
>>
>>2. As root:
>>
>># chkconfig kudzu off
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks, however, it seems kudzu is not used by mandrake 10.1. I
> checked with a ps2 keyboard and it worked just fine, and I assume that
> 10.1 has all the required modules (i.e., for usb and hid). I'll
> install prevoius version to see if the problem still exists.

Hmm, I had almost exactly the same problem with my USB keyboard in FC2, 
except that I could get it to work with the stock 2.6.5 kernel and not 
at all with the stock 2.6.8 kernel.  Turning off kudzu didn't seem to 
make a difference for me, either.  What *did* seem to make a difference 
was getting the 2.6.8 sourcecode and compiling my own kernel, which 
really isn't difficult.  I was going to compile my own kernel anyway, 
since I wanted ntfs filesystem support and the stock kernels don't seem 
to have that compiled in.

So far I've had to recompile my 2.6.8 custom kernel once after getting a 
whole bunch of updates with the Redhat Up2date tool and having my USB 
keyboard work erratically (sometimes worked, sometimes didn't) -- 
recompiling solved the problem.

I don't know enough about Linux to have a clue if that means anything, 
but maybe someone else will have a lightbulb moment from it.

-km

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