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I've been trying to try TempleOS.  When it starts booting up, it asks me to supply I/O ports and explains how to find those ports from Windows and Linux. I think I've found the ports it wants.

I seem unable to actually enter the port numbers. None of the keyboard keys will work. I've tried it on several computers, with no luck. Just how am I meant to enter the port numbers?

Here is the picture of the message that I get from TempleOS.  Note: this picture is taken from the Shrine distribution, but the message is nearly identical to that of the main TempleOS.

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    Oh man. TempleOS questions here tend to be fraught, and the author was quite literally a little.. crazy. What sort of keyboard? I doubt a USB keyboard would work. Have you tried setting the keyboard to legacy mode? You quite literally want an older 32 bit machine with legacy bios and OS/2 for this kind of thing. – Journeyman Geek Jun 16 '19 at 05:34
  • @JourneymanGeek For the Keyboard, I've tried it with a built in laptop keyboard and other USB keyboards. Legacy mode **is** enabled in my BIOS. I'm not sure what you said about wanting a 32 bit machine is correct, When Temple OS is booted from a 32 bit machine it will give you a message saying you need a 64 bit machine in order to run temple OS. And I’m pretty sure latest version of Temple OS was released in 2017 so I would have thought it can handle USB keyboards. – Lachlan McIlroy Jun 17 '19 at 04:02

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You mention in a comment that you are using "a built in laptop keyboard and other USB keyboards".

In an article entitled "Why Not More", it is stated:

Adding a USB driver would be really ugly with UHCI, EHCI, OHCI, USB1, USB2, USB3, ICH6, ICH7, ICH8, ICH9, ICH10, ICH11, ICH12, boot mode and regular mode for keyboard/mouse and a diversity of HID reports. It's hopeless. I could never offer anything but crappy, limited support and it would just add a ton of crappy code that mostly didn't work. What would I gain? Nothing. A keyboard or mouse would not be improved. Solid State USB drives would be really nice, but it's not going to happen.

It thus appears that USB is simply not supported in TempleOS. The best thing to do would probably be to find a PC with a legacy PS/2 port or run TempleOS in a virtual environment that can emulate a PS/2 keyboard. In another answer, Evan Carroll also concludes that TempleOS requires PS/2 support, based on another part of the cited document.

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