bug#323: USB Keyboard and Mouse not working on boot

Package: lnx-bbc
Version: Release

Equipment:
	Logitech USB Keyboard
	Logitech USB Mouse
	IOGear MiniView III 4-port USB KVMP Switch

When I reboot my existing linux box into bbc-lnx my keyboard and mouse
did not work.  Everything boots fine from what I can tell, but without a
keyboard there not a whole lot of debugging that I can do.

I suspect that the culprit here is my KVM because I ran into this
problem somewhere around kernel 2.4.18.  After doing quite a bit of
research I figured out that there was a sort of "black list" that
contained a list of KVMs that were not quite 100% USB compatable.  Since
my IOGear KVM uses the ATEN chipset, this KVM falls under the black
list.  The black list can be found in drivers/usb/hid-core.c.  The
kernel that was broken only had support for the WACOM chipset.  The
table for this black list in kernel 2.4.20 is much more complete.

I'm not sure if you would consider this a problem or just a short coming
of the kernel version.  I'm sure once lnx-bbc moves to a higher kernel
version this will be fixed.

Let me know if you need/want more info.

Thanks

-kevin