Daniel Bertolo schrieb:

Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 15.35 schrieb Peter Flodin:

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Does anybody else have a USB keyboard? And if so does it work during boot?

Yes, I do. It works after the USB devices are detected and started (probably coldplug does this).

I can also confirm that a single USB keyboard and USB mouse combination is working. Last tested with the installation of beta3.

If it does not work in GRUB, you probably find a USB support option in the BIOS.

"USB legacy support" might be the magic word to look for.

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Which also leads me to another question while I have your attention. Would it be possible to configure each keyboard for a different input language, rather than switch in software when I switch keyboards.

I do not know that. If SUSE uses different keyboard configs for each unique hardware identifier (as they do with network devices), this should be possible. I guess SaX2 should be aware of this.

Same to me. No idea if that is implemented in (open)SUSE. What exactly do you want to do ? Would you like to use one keyboard for Xorg/KDE/GNOME apps while the other keyboard is used for virtual terminal apps ? Or do you want to use both keyboards together in the same environment/application ? The later one might be much more difficult than the first one ... Well, everything needs one who tests it and uses it the first time ;-) Best regards, Reinhard.

Thanks for the replies. I have come to the conclusion that my bios is a bit screwy. It has two (surprisingly clearly) labelled options for USB Keyboard and USB mouse. However if I enable USB keyboard, the machine does not boot, that is, it never actually gets to point of booting and hangs during power on test. With or without the devices actually plugged in.

Well, it is actually not me who wants this. Peter asked for connecting two keyboards with different layout to his machine (one Swedish and one US) in order to use both at the same time. AFAIK, Xorg should be able to handle several input devices on the same screen. E.g. I am using two mice on my laptop (touchpad and USB mouse) at the same time. So this should be working with keyboards, too.

Yes they both work, but they are using the same language. My wish is to have two keyboards, each configured with its correct layout, if possible. Thanks, Peter.