On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:35:17AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: | I'm getting this error message a lot: | | kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? | | Full disclosure: a few weeks ago I switched to one of those Microsoft
Microsoft? Did they put a check in the keyboard to ensure that it is only used with a Microsoft OS? Perhaps you can pay them an Alternate OS fee to enable the keyboard. <wink> | ergonomic keyboards. (It's great!) So I assume that's the source of the | error message (which I never got before). Does anyone know what's | causing this message and how I can stop it? | What kind of motherboard do you have? Does it have a PS/2 port? I don't think that any recently built keyboards work with the older AT keyboard ports. I have the MS keyboard at work (NT 4.0 system) -- it has a PS/2 connector and an adapter for USB. (Aside: does the USB really only work with Win98 like they said or will it work with any USB capable system?) I have a different brand of ergo keyboard on my personal Debian system. It has only a PS/2 connector and works fine. I would recommend plugging a basic keyboard in and rebooting. If you don't see the error, return your M$ keyboard immediately. (If you want I can give you the brand/etc of my keyboard. It isn't curved as nicely as the MS one but it has those cool buttons on the top -- now I just need to write a driver to use those buttons :-)) HTH, -D
