Problem with wireless keyboard in the grub OS selection screen [logitech cordless freedom] [computer boots]
Q: I have a dual boot with XP Pro and redhat . the computer on my bootloader (GRUB), but my keyboard does not work with the boot loader screen so I can not select the OS to run . the default is set to XP so I can not get into Linux at the moment. They keyboard and mouse are both Logitech Cordless Freedom . Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re:A little Googling comes up with this (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=539&group_id=68). Are you using the same GRUB version as those guys? If so, have you tried the patches listed?
Re:Stil can't use the keyboard during OS selection. Anyone else have some advice? I'm probably going to end up having to plug in a ps/2 keyboard at startup time if I can't find a solution….any help would be GREAT…
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I looked around in my BIOS and couldn't find anything helpful…I tried a few things…but still no keyboard at GRUB….ANYONE Have any more advice? It would be greatly appreciated!
My USB keyboard doesn't work in grub either. Good thing It's hooked up to my laptop though 
Re:I looked around in my BIOS and couldn't find anything helpful…I tried a few things…but still no keyboard at GRUB….ANYONE Have any more advice? It would be greatly appreciated!
Re:Then the keyboard is recognizable before the OS takes over. So check out the various USB settings in the BIOS. Also might want to check out the IRQ section – sometimes there are options for assigning USB IRQ's at boot time.
Re:I can get into my BIOS at system start but I still recieve no response at all when trying to switch the OS at the GRUB screen…..it waits 8 seconds, and no matter what I do, it loads the default OS (XP)
Re:I don't think you have any options other then not using that keyboard. If what I think is happening is actually happening, then the software divers for that keyboard are needed before the computer will know that anything is being typed. Can you get into the system BIOS with that keyboard? That at least would then prove if the divers are needed or not, because they will not have been loaded at the memory check stage yet either.
There might be some real good wireless keyboards that have built in hardware to decipher and translate the signals that it is recieving from the keyboard in hardware that is attached to the computer and then send to cooresponding keyboard interupt code to the computer, but I do not think it is really a needed option in the eyes of most product designers who are focusing on lowering production costs and thus overall product cost to the consumer so that he/she will buy their product instead of someone elses. The problem that you are faced with is the only type of situation where the system will not have the ability to use the software drivers they have written to properly deal with keyboard strokes.
Like I said, try and get into your BIOS at the memory check, and if your keyboard works there fine, then what I have written above is not the cause of your problem and it is something else. But, if you can't get into you BIOS at the memory check with your keyboard, then you will know that no keyboard strokes are recognised untill the keyboard drivers are loaded and this is what is causing your problem.
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