Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I looked through the forums and couldn't find anything about it so I hope this is in the right section, should be. The other day, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a hard drive that I reformatted and partitioned to fat32. Everything works, I have windows and Ubuntu. Grub loads and everything, but my keyboard dose not respond in grub, so I'm stuck loading Ubuntu and can never load any of my other OS's. I was thinking that maybe I need to install the keyboard driver into the grub loader (if that's even possible) The keyboard responds during start up bios, but then when grub appears it just turns off and i have to wait for the timer to expire and load Ubuntu then my keyboard turns back on when Ubuntu starts to load.. Has any one else herd of this happening or anything would be really helpful thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 USB keyboard? Enable legacy USB support in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 yeah its an Saitek Eclipse USB keyboard. I'll try what u said in a few minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 So i tried looking for that setting or anything close to it, and found nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Bang a PS2 keyboard in there and see if that works, if it does, get one of those usb -> ps2 adaptors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 Yeah but ps2 is slower... And I already have the usb to ps2 lol... but ill try that i suppose.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisiam Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 How fast do you want your keyboard to be, i have both USB and PS2 and don't notice any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 well i want as little delay as possible since i use windows to play games the more delay the more i suck :(.... but who knows I'll try the ps2 idea and if it works then it works and whatever. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 PS/2 is probably faster in terms of key response times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 Really? From what I've herd ps2 is slower, and a lot of people have said that... :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Really not going to make that much of a difference in the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 It is slower in terms of data. But since you are only sending key codes it doesn't really matter. Plus, PS/2 is a dedicated connection. Where as USB is a shared bandwidth arrangement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 I see, well now I know, but my PS2 ports don't work.... lol.... I looked in the bios and what not as well and didn't find a thing.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 You need to play about with your bios USB settings, but don't worry, your not the only one with this issue: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-110730.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 Hmmmmm ok well thanks, I think ill just mess around with the bios for a while and hopefully get it to work. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgcorps Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share Posted August 10, 2007 Well it turns out my bios dose have legacy support, it was just hidden under 3 sub subcategory's... So it works now thank you very much for that now all I need is to find out why my second hard drive isnt showing up... lol thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegRipper Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I have the same problem with smoothwall v2 running on a old Gateway PC with no PS/2 ports, I can't get passed part of the install after keyboard setup. Had the same problem with the beta version 3. Ended up using IPcop which worked fine with the USB keyboard, and I only needed it to install it! *Sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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