On 10/26/05, Oscar Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:03 am, Paul Hoy wrote:
> > HI all,
> >
> > Perhaps someone can suggest a solution -
> >
> > My keyboard suddenly stopped working in arch today. I don't know whether
> > it's related, but about an hour before my system upgraded filesystem and
> > wget. I also install mysql, apache, mod-python, and php.
> >
> > Anyway, after I rebooted, I was unable to logon because my keyboard no
> > longer worked. The keyboard (whith which I'm typing with at the moment)
> > works on two other OSs on the same machine.
> >
> > I have a work-related document on my arch install that I need to get.
> > Any idea how I can resolve this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Hi, in the past I used to have this problem with gdm (now I use kdm) and I
> have seen it too in entrance (enlightenment display manager), when any of
> those was the problem, I just had to login with the arch-base cd, archie or
> knoppix and remove that daeom from rc.conf.
>
> Hope it's nothing hardware related.
>
> Oscarello
>

Thats another cause, putting *dm in /etc/rc.conf. If you want to use
one, add it to /etc/inittab. There's an example for xdm commented out
there by default.

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