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I am having a kernel error but even though I have tried many regular wired keyboards, raspberry couldn’t either recognize or power the keyboards. I wonder whether raspberry requires its official wired keyboard for accessing the settings at the boot session.

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Edit: I bought an SD card. Then, installed the latest Raspberry Pi. The wired keyboard model that wasn’t recognized during the boot time worked in a fresh boot. As far as I understood that Raspberry Pi does not enable certain parts of it until the boot session is fully complete. But I still wonder how to interfere with kernel issues.

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No, the Pi/RpiOS should work with almost any normal USB keyboard. The potential exception would be keyboards with special features that require specific software/drivers to use -- although even in those cases unless the keyboard is really weird, it would probably still work for basic functionality. So by "special features" I don't mean that row of controls for play/pause, volume etc. that is fairly common, or LEDS, or even a trackpad, although the trackpad may or may not work (it probably would).1

Keyboards don't use a lot of power, so if you have some reason to believe that is the problem, either you have too many other things connected to it, or your power supply is totally insufficient to start with.

  1. I'm not actually aware of any real examples which would fit this potential exception, so it may well be that it literally does work with all currently available USB keyboards, reason being that the USB protocol for keyboards is standardized, ie., they all work the same way.
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