Logitech USB keyboard fails in Jaunty! - please help

[Andrew Farris]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/7/17 Zachary Uram <netrek at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This keyboard, Logitech Deluxe 250, works fine in Windows Vista. I see
> > exact same problem in Debian 5.01 so I am thinking a HAL or kernel
> > issue?
> > The keyboard is totally unresponsive and at no time in boot process
> > does it respond nor do any of the 3 green LED status lights come on as
> > they normally would. The mouse works fine though.
> >
> 
> Have you tried contacting Logitech and asking if the keyboard is meant
> to work with Linux? I know that sounds funny, but I recently called
> Logitech asking about a mouse and they told me that the mouse does not
> support Linux. I wound up calling Microsoft and their salesman was
> very helpful in deciding which mouse to buy. I bought a Microsoft
> mouse in the end because the MS salesman said that the mouse would
> support Linux but the Logitech salesman said that his company's mouse
> would not.
> 
> If you don't let them know that us silly Linux users exist, then we
> will continue to have terrible hardware support. Here is the Logitech
> contact page:
> http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/contact/&cl=us,en
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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