Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Keyboard disables after system-up noises?

[Lincoln J. <lin...@gm...>]

Dom

Thanks for your suggestions... I managed to fix the problem, but I will
record the issues in more detail here in case anyone has the same problem.

I was unable to type anything once the login prompt came up, could not log
in. I could log in through SSH using putty. The keyboard would work fine
until the moment it did the system-up beeps. I know this because it would
display ^] characters if I held down the escape key, but would stop once the
beeps started. It was not a keyboard issue (as far as I could tell, it
worked fine until the login prompt appeared). The keyboard is a standard
PS/2 Dell keyboard with media buttons on the top.

For some reason, once I plugged in a mouse to the system, everything worked
fine.

Linux Kernel 2.4.36.6
Devil-Linux V1.2.15-i686-SMP

Now I just need to figure out why DL isn't playing nice with my windows
boxes.

This is my first time using a linux setup, so I expect that I will be
posting questions/problems here a fair bit over the coming week or so.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Dom <dl...@ed...> wrote:

> Lincoln:
>
> Just to help us understand, at what point do you get this problem? Can
> you type 'root' at the login prompt? Can you get logged in?
>
> Could it be a physical problem with your keyboard? Do you have another
> keyboard you could try? Is it a standard keyboard and/or did you set the
> keyboard type correctly in DL Setup? Is the keyboard plugged in
> correctly? :-) Is it USB keyboard? I have never tried USB keyboard with
> DL, I guess it should work fine but if you have PS/2 keyboard it would
> be worth trying that...
>
> Alternatively, can you login remotely? If you chose to include SSHD in
> Setup/Services, and set up your ethernet card correctly, you should be
> able to log in remotely over a network - you would have to find out the
> ip address, your router's configuration web page can probably help with
> this.
>
> Dom
> http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/dlsetup
>
> Lincoln Johnson wrote:
> > I've done a search through the archives, but haven't been able to find
> > anything to help me with this...
> >
> > I'm setting up a new install of DL to run as a file server at home,
> > and after running through the initial config/reboot, the computer has
> > decided to no longer recognize any keyboard inputs, but only after the
> > system-up beeps.
> >
> > It will accept keyboard input up until the second that it starts the
> > beeps, then it stops. It just stays at the login: prompt.
> >
> > I don't know what to do here... please help?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
>
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