Bug 745

Summary:	keyboard not active when grub window shown
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	robert marshall <robert>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	grub-0.97-32.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description robert marshall 2011-04-09 20:25:10 CEST

Description of problem:

On booting when I get the the grub screen the keyboard does not respond and booting proceeds with a timeout on the default option

The keyboard is a Cherry/Cymotion 

usbhid          : Cherry GmbH|CyMotion Master Linux Keyboard [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Keyboard] (vendor:046a device:0023)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot 
2. at the grub screen try to select an other boot option (down arrow key)
3. no other option is selected (caps lock doesn't light up)


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-09 21:12:01 CEST

Could you go through the BIOS settings of your motherboard, there's usually an option about enabling support for usb keyboards, if there's such an option, please make sure it's enabled then try again.

Comment 2 robert marshall 2011-04-09 21:30:46 CEST

ok, sorry about that, long day..... closing!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID