USB keyboard not available at 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha2 LiveCD boot menu

[Laubstein]

My computer, a Dell Dimension 5150 N-series, has only a USB keyboard. The boot menu ignores the keyboard until the boot process start (boot process means after the countdown go to zero).
I have this problem with 7.10 release, but not with 7.04 and 6.10 releases (as mentioned in #146369 and #154702).

ISO file and CD content md5sum is ok... the keyboard is ok (i`m typing from a 8.04 LiveCD session now).

info about keyboard:
# hwinfo
>> usb device: name = 1-2:1.0
    path = /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
    modalias = "usb:v413Cp2005d0105dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip01"
    bInterfaceNumber = 0
    bInterfaceClass = 3
    bInterfaceSubClass = 1
    bInterfaceProtocol = 1
    if: 1-2:1.0 @ /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2
    bDeviceClass = 0
    bDeviceSubClass = 0
    bDeviceProtocol = 0
    idVendor = 0x413c
    idProduct = 0x2005
    manufacturer = "DELL"
    product = "DELL USB Keyboard"
    bcdDevice = 0105
    speed = "1.5"
----- /proc/bus/input/devices -----
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=413c Product=2005 Version=0110
N: Name="DELL DELL USB Keyboard"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

[Lieven (lieven-debels)]

Found a workaround in bug 35530. You have to press down the shift key during boot.

[Laubstein (laubstein)]

About the workaround...

When I press shift I`m prompted:
boot graphics? (yes | no) > yes
detect display? (yes | no) > yes

then, I receive this message (in both cases of "detect display")
gfx code:
mem area 0 0x00052a10 - 0x0009fc00
mem area 1 0x00800000 - 0x00900000
mem area 2 0x00a00000 - 0x00b00000

Press a key to continue...

When I press the key, I receive a lot (~20) lines about memory.

If I choose "boot graphics? > no" I receive the old style boot screen and the keyboard works fine.

I`m running 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha4

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

isn't this a duplicate of Bug 35530 ?

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you reproduce this bug in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Thank you for telling us!

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

This has not been a problem, at least on MY system (Dell Dimension E510) for several years. Possibly not since 8.10 Intrepid. I just upgraded recently to 12.04.1 LTS and it wasn't a problem.

Just in case I set something in the BIOS way back when, I just looked and there is no "Legacy USB" setting in my BIOS that I can find.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

OH I should have specified that I upgraded to 12.04.1 by booting from an .iso and installing over the 10.04 system, preserving the /home partition. SO, yes, I ran the installer from the liveCD image.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Laubstein: Can you give us any updates if this bug is still happening to you please?