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

[Dom <dl...@ed...>]

Lincoln

Pleased to hear you got it sorted. The mouse (absence of) is not the 
culprit. Perhaps your media buttons upset DL?

If you can't get your Samba fileserver working after looking through my 
help page, which was written by a Linux newbie (me) for Linux newbies, 
let us know and I, or others here better qualified, will try to help. I 
would also welcome any improvements/corrections to my text.

Dom
http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/dlsetup

Lincoln Johnson wrote:
> 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 <http://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... 
> <mailto: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.
>
>