[Gllug] USB keyboard/mouse and Debian

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Fri Apr 11 12:29:26 UTC 2003


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:22:29PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 13:03 11/04/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >I'm the lucky (?) owner of a "legacy-free" motherboard. ie. I had to
> >throw away my reliable old PS/2 keyboard and mouse and replace them
> >with flimsy USB equivalents.
> 
> I use both a USB mouse and keyboard with no problems whatsoever.
> 
> Make sure you have the hotplug manager installed (apt-get install hotplug) 
> and that your kernel has modular support for USB.

Thanks to both who replied.

I did 'apt-get install hotplug', rebooted and now all is working.

Rich.

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