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Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk |
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to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. |
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What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub |
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screen... It does not see my keyboard yet. |
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Once booted and login prompt is up (I boot to console mode) the |
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keyboard now is recognized. |
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There was a time when the keyboard was recognized throughout, so |
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something changed in grub or I'm not sure what... but this happens |
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before the kernel is booted. |
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I just worked around it and kept meaning to try to sort it out... but |
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never did till now.... its been so long ago now I have no idea what |
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config may have done the deed. |
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I hoped someone here may have some useful input regarding what drivers |
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may be needed or what changes made in order that, at the boot prompt, |
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my kvm (usb) connected keyboard is recognized. |
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Of course plugging a keyboard direct to the machine is an option but it |
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gets quite messy having two keyboards on a desk already loaded down |
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with 2 monitors a KVM connecting 4 machines and all the junk one might |
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associate with habitually working thru 4 or 5 machines for hours every |
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day or nearly so. |
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The problem only exists right at boot time... once booted the KVM works fine. |
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