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Keyboard problem

  • 22-12-2004 8:44pm
    #1
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Strange one here: Just installed gentoo on a hp laptop. There's something strange about this machine, in that I need to append the kernel options "noapic nolapic" to allow it to boot. Anyhoo:

    When it boots, everything seems to work fine until I get to the login prompt (tty, not graphical; no X installed). The keyboard doesn't respond. I ssh'd into it and played around with modules: no luck. Just for giggles I tried "cat /dev/psaux" to see if the touchpad was working - and the keyboard started to respond. Not only that, it echoed the characters I had typed while the keyboard was unresponsive.

    Um, wtf?

    Stage 3 install, genkernel 2.4.26-gentoo-r13.


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  • #2
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    maybe it in /dev/input or somewhat
    it could alse be a usb problem, usb does strange things sometimes, especially since you menation acpi.
    maybe recompile the kernel with modular usb support , basically change your settings, uhci instead of ohci or whatever. O_o
    ..... or something


  • #3
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Fuggit, don't have time to play with it: I just installed a minimal Debian Sarge instead.


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