Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard.
What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub screen... It does not see my keyboard yet. Once booted and login prompt is up (I boot to console mode) the keyboard now is recognized. There was a time when the keyboard was recognized throughout, so something changed in grub or I'm not sure what... but this happens before the kernel is booted. I just worked around it and kept meaning to try to sort it out... but never did till now.... its been so long ago now I have no idea what config may have done the deed. I hoped someone here may have some useful input regarding what drivers may be needed or what changes made in order that, at the boot prompt, my kvm (usb) connected keyboard is recognized. Of course plugging a keyboard direct to the machine is an option but it gets quite messy having two keyboards on a desk already loaded down with 2 monitors a KVM connecting 4 machines and all the junk one might associate with habitually working thru 4 or 5 machines for hours every day or nearly so. The problem only exists right at boot time... once booted the KVM works fine.
