USB keyboard/mouse and KVM

[Timothy Domst]

I am using SuSE and I finally got my second box up and running.  I put 
a very old card in it because I want to use it only for a router, and 
maybe DNS.  I can start installing using my Apple USB keyboard and 
mouse through the KVM switch, but when SuSE gets to where I need to 
select my time zone and format my hard drive and pick what modules I 
want, it won't let me use the keyboard or mouse.  This also happens to 
my soon-to-be-server box, it has an evenly centered screen when setting 
up and the keyboard and mouse work but then after it asks for the 
specific monitor and keyboard and mouse the mouse sticks in the bottom 
left corner and I have to play with the monitor settings forever, when 
they were fine before.  Why can't I just use whatever standard modules 
it was using when it worked?

The USB mouse and keyboard and monitor work fine with the BIOS screens 
on the motherboard, is the fact that Linux is taking over control of 
all this stuff that makes it screwed up?  Does Linux use info from the 
BIOS during installation, then abandon this info for a module after 
it's installed?