On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, at 02:06AM, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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. > >-- >iphitus - archck maintainer >Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspot.com > >_______________________________________________ >arch mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > ------------ Paul Hoy Thanks, James and Oscarello. It's not a hardware issue because the keyboard worked with two other OSs on the same machine. I ended up just reinstalling. However, I just performed a similar update on one of my work machines, and if I experience the same issue, I'll try the above mentioned solutions. Thanks again, Paul _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
