First off, great pages!  I wouldn't have gotten a half-way usable linux 
up my vaio without both your pages. 

I managed with some pain to get my Eagle USB keyboard and Belkin USB 
mouse to work. I didn't want to go 2.3.X, and since all I have is a 
keyboard and mouse, and I didn't want to risk too many stability problems. 
So I gave 2.2.12 a try. Here's the steps that worked for
me. I'm using a stock 2.2.12 with the NeoMagic 256AV sound patches. 


(1) Download a 2.2.12 kernel. I applied the sound patches. 

(3) Next, get a 2.3.18 kernel to get a corrected keycodes file. 

The USB key codes in 2.2.12 seem a bit messed up; only alphanumeric 
keys worked for me. I replace the 2.2.12 drivers/usb/keycodes.c with the 
2.3.18 drivers/usb/keycodes.c 
(e.g. cp /usr/src/linux-2.3.18/drivers/usb/keymap.c /usr/src/linux-2.2.12/drivers/usb/keymap.c)

(4) After a "make menuconfig", in 2.2.12, I asked for experimental
    drivers. In the USB section, I selected UHCI support and keyboard and
    mouse support.  Don't select any OHCI drivers. Modules 
    seemed to work OK for me too.

(5) Build and install the kernel. You should see a message like at boot
    like:  
	uhci_control_thread at c4042e1c
	usb_hub_thread at c4044c28

    or, after loading the usb-uhci module manually.

(7) Plug in your keyboard. It should work without doing anything extra, 
    both in console mode and X. 

(8) For mouse support, first I had to add the usb device in /dev. E.g, do 
    a "mknod /dev/usbmouse c 10 32" (as in the USB HOWTO). 
    To get X to use the mouse, I just changed the Pointer "Device"
    line in /etc/X11/XF86Config from /dev/mouse to /dev/usbmouse. 
    The XF86Config configuration at the USB HOWTO at: 
          
          http://www.dynamine.net/linux-usb/HOWTO
	
    definately did NOT work for my mouse. 

						-R