[ubuntu-za] No keyboard detected

[Jan Greeff]

Thanks Wayne. Yes I did try the other USB ports, no luck and yes, it is 
an old motherboard.

On 03/09/2016 08:24, Wayne Abroue wrote:
> Hi Jan
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> If this worked,
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>     I found a suggestion that led me to try connecting the USB
>     keyboard to the little round plug (sorry I dont know the
>     terminology) via an adapter. Problem solved!
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> Then your board with ps2 is quite old, and yes some had these quirky 
> usb problems. Did you try a different usb port?
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> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net 
> <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
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>     An interesting thing happened.
>
>     I had two hard drives in my desktop, one an SSD loaded with my
>     daily-use Ubuntu 14.04 and the other with Zorin, which I was
>     preparing for a friend.
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>     Initially everything worked fine, I could select which drive to
>     boot from in the grub menu. Then suddenly, the system did not pick
>     up the keyboard, connected via USB, so I was unable to access BIOS
>     or to select any options in the grub menu. Once the system had
>     booted, the keyboard worked fine.
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>     While Googling around for solutions, I found a suggestion that led
>     me to try connecting the USB keyboard to the little round plug
>     (sorry I dont know the terminology) via an adapter. Problem solved!
>
>     Can anybody please explain the mechanics of this hiccup and how I
>     can get this keyboard to function properly via USB once more?
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>     Many thanks,
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>     Jan
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