so i have a Toshiba Satellite SA20-S103 and i have both my mouse and keyboard attached via usb, and the mouse works fine but the keyboard only lights up and doesn't work. Also as i said im running FreeDOS 1.4 and planning to install 98SE or me... SEND HELP 🙁
Also i have legacy USB keyboard and mouse set to enabled.
Either your BIOS doesn't support USB keyboard, or something "weird" with FreeDos handling of keyboard...
Maybe doesn't go through BIOS like most DOS ... I have DOS5 running on a couple systems with USB keyboard.
Does keyboard work in BIOS?
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DaveDDS wrote on 2025-12-06, 00:46:Either your BIOS doesn't support USB keyboard, or something "weird" with FreeDos handling of keyboard...
Maybe doesn't go through BIOS like most DOS ... I have DOS5 running on a couple systems with USB keyboard.Does keyboard work in BIOS?
No, doesn't work in BIOS... Something wierd is happening since i used this exact combo on the same exact laptop using the same version of FreeDOS like a year ago and it worked perfectly
Also the mouse is freaking out now
If it worked once, then BIOS can support the keyboard (which would most likely let it work in DOS as well)
Obviously something has changed ... try resetting BIOS to a clean setup (make sure to note drove types and anything else you might need to re-enter in BIOS)
Mouse "freaking out" is a bit worrisome ... perhaps you have a hardware failure (although if mouse partially works, I'd expect at least a little response to the keyboard)
- Dave ; https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ; "Daves Old Computers" ; SW dev addict best known:
ImageDisk: rd/wr ANY floppy PChardware can ; Micro-C: compiler for DOS+ManySmallCPU ; DDLINK: simple/small FileTrans(w/o netSW)via Lan/Lpt/Serial
yeah i'll reset it once im home and share the results
