Re: Unresponsive keyboard

From: J. Dintzner <joe@alaskancomputers.com>
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 08:55:26 AKST

Guess I should have mentioned more specifics.. It's a wireless ps/2
keyboard.

The problem was a corrupted GPM package. Somehow it scrambled when I
switched pci slots with a NIC.

Ended up just disabling GPM and all seems fine.

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:56, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> You didn't say, but do you have a USB keyboard? We had a problem a while back
> where the USB mouse suddenly wouldn't work in Redhat, but would in Windows.
> Had to plug two mice into the computer: PS/2 for Redhat, USB for Windows. If
> this is a PS/2 keyboard, I really don't know what to tell you.
>
> j----- k-----
>
> On Monday 22 March 2004 12:49 pm, joe wrote:
> > I'm havivg a bit of a problem.
> >
> > Seems that my keyboard is unresponsive as soon as I get to the login screen
> > on my Redhat 9.0 box. When the grub loader comes up I am able to use the
> > keyboard for selecting either dos or redhat, Also I can use the keyboard to
> > enter the interactive startup but as soon as it gets to the login screen
> > Poof!! no keyboard.. Have tried other keyboards and all work in windows but
> > not redhat.. Only change I made was to switch the IRQ of my netcard by
> > moving it down one PCI slot.
> >
> > Running in windows for too long makes me grumpy. Any thoughts?
> > --
> > Joseph Dintzner
> > joe@alaskancomputers.com
> >
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