[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Keyboards (again)

[Chris Cox]

MadHat wrote:
> So I have the tablet.  I have decided to move away from RedHat and look
> at other distributions.  I tryed mandrake and decided it wasn't for me. 
> Try Gentoo and couldn't get it to recognize my CDROM drive.  Suse,
> doesn't get the USB keyboard or CDROM.  This thing does not have a PS2
> connection for anything, I can use the built in keyboard, but that makes
> it a pain in the ass to use the docking station, which is the CD/DVD
> ROM....
> 
> So is there a Linux distribution that has figured out that USB keyboard
> are common now and should be supported at Install time, not just post
> install?  This is the 3rd time I have run into this issue and the last 2
> times I have just used another OS because I didn't want to mess with
> it...
> 

Hmm... you know, at the college I install onto Dell's with USB
keyboards all of the time with SuSE 8.0 and now with SuSE 8.1.

Don't know about the CDROM issue.