USB Keyboard activated from BIOS, is not active immediatelly upon boot

cynick · 04-23-2006, 10:18 AM

I have an USB keyboard, and when Suse 10 boots up, I can use it to move around the loader menus.
Once it starts loading, the keyboard freezes until linux loads its driver, and thus I can't press ESC to see what's going on, until that driver has been loaded.

(first it mounts disks, then keyboard/mouse, ... network, ..)

of course, if I use a PS/2 adapter for the keyboard, everything works,
but why is my keyboard unavailable after the boot menu and before the driver is loaded?

Brian1 · 04-23-2006, 12:58 PM

USB is not active till it is loaded. It is more than likely as a module which will not take effect until the kernel is fully loaded and starts loading modules. Only way to get a keyboard working sooner is to recompile the kernel and have the USB drivers compiled into the kernel and not as modules.

Brian1