>>> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:03 am, Paul Hoy wrote: >>>> 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 sporadically encounter this issue as well, even if doing no software update whatsoever. The keyboard allows switching VTs, though, meaning the function keys are working just fine, and I pinpointed the issue to flakey floppy connection cabling that seems to throw the kernel off the loop quite interestingly. In fact, that keyboard problem is accompanied by a bootup failure with the message "no cont in shutdown!" where fd0 is usually registered. Just hangs there. Sometimes it boots through, though, which is when the keyboard does not work. I usually leave the floppy drive disabled in the BIOS, so I don't realize something is fishy until the machine hangs during bootup. The issue is reproducably "fixable" by gently stroking the floppy cabling here. Usually this happens when I move the box about, sometimes even without applying any changes whatsoever. I blame cheap hardware, but have no clue at all how the floppy drive could affect the keyboard, let alone *if* it does. Just my personal experience with a strikingly similar issue that might be worth trying as a last resort. Sacrificing a black virgin pigeon might also help. Dennis _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
