Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134925
RedHat Installer and IBM x455 with USB Keyborad
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: I try to install RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3(ia64) on a IBM x455 (88553RX) machine. I use a USB Keyboard and USB Mouse because no PS/2 input on x455. in EFI Diagnostic Menu, I tested these options : Test USB Functionality Test USB Keyboard Test USB Mouse USB Func. test is OK. USB Keyboard test is OK. when I changed the one of the test options(I choose PnP test : NO) and USB mouse test is Ok. I look at devices at EFI shell and results are: Shell : devices -b ........ ...... 88 B _ _ 1 2 1 Generic USB Mouse 89 B _ _ 1 3 1 Generic USB Keyboard 8A B _ _ 1 2 1 Generic UsB Mouse ........ ..... Shell : devtree -b ......... .......... Ctrl [88] Generic USB Mouse Ctrl [26] Primary Console Input Devices Ctrl [89] Generic USB Keyboard Ctrl [26] Primary Console Input Devices Ctrl [8A] Generic USB Mouse Ctrl [26] Primary Console Input Devices ......... .......... ........ Then, I choose CDROM from EFI Shell and elilo starts : I typed linux text and pressed ENTER.(USB Keyboard was working properly) Installation started. But anymore USB mouse and USB Keyboard were not working. Anaconda was unable to detect my USB keyboard and USB Mouse. I didn't install RedHat Linux AS 3.0 on x455 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 3 Update 3 (ia64) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect USB Mouse and USB Keyb to x455 2. Insert RHEL AS 3 CD 3. Open EFI Shell and Start Installation Actual Results: Same result, no success Additional info:
Additionaly, I used A4 Logitech USB mouse and Microsoft Wheel USB mouse, but no change in result. Erhan Ekici
The problem was solved. The solution is to use IBM USB Keyboard. Erhan Ekici
Thank you for confirming it was a hardware problem.