Okay, I have a Compaq Presario with a Compaq USB keyboard. I used to have Mandrake and it worked fine so I'm sure that my hardware is functioning correctly. I've decided to dump Mandrake for RedHat 8 (came on a CD in a linux book I got for Xmas).

I pop the cd in and it prompts me to hit enter to do a graphical instal, I hit enter, the keyboard works, graphical install starts fine. But once I'm in the graphical install the keyboard stops functioning. I borrowed my parents PS/2 keyboard to finish the install. Then I reboot, I have a duel boot with Windows 2000 and in GRUB the USB keyboard works fine, I arrow down to linux and start RedHat. While RedHat is starting kudzu pops up and recognizes that I have a new keyboard, I figure hey, it see's my USB keyboard, I'll get it configured and all will be well . So it asks me what type of keyboard it is and I say 'us', linux finishes booting up, but then I get like 100 messages scrolling down my screen that say 'usb_control/bulk_message: timeout' and of course my USB keyboard doesn't work . So I reboot, the USB keyboard no longer works in GRUB and I always get 100 or so of those timeout messages every time I boot.

I looked through my book, I went to the library and looked through every linux book they had, and all of them just assume your keyboard works. I can only borrow my parents keyboard for so long, does anyone know how I can fix this problem??

p.s. I'm a to linux so go easy

I am also facing the same problem.
I am using USB mouse and it refuses to work.
I wonder if anyone can fix my problem too.

same problem w/ usb keyboard but i have RH9.

Someone please help us...

I've been looking through all past threads about problems with USB HID in Linux and no1 basically answered a question. I do too have same problem, except i get error messages on bootup and keyboard is laggin HARD.

Any 1??

Why don't you mods make a sticky for this problem??