Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

From: Adam Rosi-Kessel (adam_at_rosi-kessel.org)
Date: 09/20/04

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    Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:29:11 -0400
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    Thanks for your suggestions:

    On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
    > To enter text into the terminal, open up a file using your destop (like
    > say /etc/passwd), select one letter, then middle click in the terminal.
    > Will be slow, should work.

    The problem with this is that I need to login before I can open a
    terminal, and the keyboard is nonfunctional from the start. I use gdm as
    login manager. I suppose I could configure it to auto-login to
    troubleshoot this problem, but I'd rather not eliminate password
    authentication as a condition of using the machine.

    > Perhaps your X server is improperly configured, and depending one what
    > keys you press after bootup, it sometimes misdetects your keyboard type?

    Hmm. I'm fairly certain the keyboard fails to work when I haven't
    pressed any keys yet (not even 'return' to select the kernel in GRUB--it
    usually just picks the first one after 5 seconds). I can't for the life
    of me think of what would make it occur only occasionally, though.

    > can you Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace the server?

    Nope, ctrl-alt-backspace is as nonfunctional as ctrl-alt-del. 

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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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