On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:39 -0700, alan wrote:
The motherboard is an Intel P4 3ghz hyperthread. (Actually made by
Intel.) I don't have the model number at the moment. (It would
require opening it up.)
The "dmidecode" command is useful for finding out information like that.
What is weird is that the BIOS reports "legacy keyboard"
even if I
have a PS/2 keyboard plugged in.
Shouldn't that be the case (PS/2 - legacy, USB - new style)?
(And it works with the bios screen, so it knows how to use it until
it
hits grub.)
I've seen some darn peculiar behaviours with PCs that are set in the
BIOS to use PS/2 keyboards, yet the owner only has a USB keyboard.
Sometimes the BIOS is accessible, with the BIOS emulating PS/2, but once
you boot a PC it's no longer emulating a PS/2 keyboard, the OS uses an
USB keyboard as an USB keyboard. Othertimes the BIOS is inaccessible.
I wish they'd get their act together, they've been around for quite some
time.
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