Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (136 mails)

[Wendell Sexson <jwsthree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ken Southerland <southerland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm have 64-bit (obviously right?) SuSE 9.2
> installed on a Compaq Persario 
> laptop.  I am trying to get an external keyboard
> hooked up to it because I'm 
> used to using the "natural" style keyboards and
> while i'm at my desk I'ld 
> like to type on that.  There is no ps/2 port on this
> laptop just USB, just an 
> FYI.  I can't seem to figure out how to get SuSE to
> recognize the keyboard, 
> its not automatically detected at boot and nor can I
> find anything in Yas or 
> in a google search to help me figure out how to do
> this.  Anyone know?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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> Ken Southerland
> Senior Consultant
> Sam Six EDD, Inc.
> 
> 503-236-4288
> http://www.samsixedd.com

Hi Ken,
I would recommend installing 9.3 or 10.0.
I had intermittent trouble with my USB keyboard and
mouse with SUSE 9.2 x86_64 (on a desktop machine).
About 1 time out of 5 the keyboard would work at the
GRUB menu, but then SUSE would not recognize it (or
the mouse) while booting. I would have to shut down
then turn it back on to get it to work. I never had
this problem with 9.3. I have not had this problem yet
with 10.0 (just installed RC1 over the weekend). If I
remember correctly, 9.2 was known to be flakey with
USB hotplugging.