Package: debian-installer Version: 40r2 Followup-For: Bug #411552
There are many (older) PC BIOSes that do support USB keyboard but only in BIOS, not once an OS (like syslinux) is booted. Of course, Linux can use the keyboard with appropriate drivers but syslinux cannot. This applies to recent Apple hardware as well. The PC BIOS emulation is quite flaky and the USB keyboard usually fails. It is said it can be restored with unplugging and replugging the keyboard, at least sometimes. There are workarounds for both cases. You can use the PS2 port if you have such keyboard around and nothing else is faulty. With Apple hardware Linux could supposedly boot natively using the efi thingy (although that might cause problems with graphics and stuff because most hardware is unitialized or initialized in a different way then). Thanks Michal -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
