Without other usb devices the keyboard works immediately. With them it takes 5 ish seconds for it to start responding. This is regardless of which device is discovered first (which I can manipulate), it seems to just wait for all of them. Is there a way to make it not do that?

Edit: This is specifically about linux boot. It otherwise works fine in bios / bootloader

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I’ve had this happen before on some weird systems. Unplugging and replugging the keyboard woke the keyboard back up.

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Are you using the usb ports on the motherboard itself? Because you need to with a lot of MBs depending on when they initialize other USB

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I had a motherboard like this: the USB ports didn’t work until it booted into an OS. You had to connect a PS2 to make changes in the BIOS, and could only boot from IDE. It was super-annoying.

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Yep if the MB has a PS/2 slot this is the solution.

You can also get a usb to PS/2 converter so you don’t need an extra keyboard.

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…on which hardware?

Last i encountered this issue i had to connect it directly to an USB port, instead of through an USB hub.

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Check if you find anything about this in the kernel log (dmesg).

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