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To stop the shower of e-mails and say thank you to all who tried to help:
It was the xdm I had switched on - for some reason it interfered with
keyboard
control - I do not know the details but after having it off in my init
sequence
everything back to normal ....
Jan
Kevin Cowtan wrote:
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Jon Agirre wrote:
By the way, updating an rpm-based distro is a painful process. My
suggestion for your future installations is to use a Debian based
distro, like Knoppix (with nice HW detection) or (K)Ubuntu (which is
supposed to be easy to use).
Or alternatively, use yum, which is a frontend to RPM which makes it
as easy as the debian based distros. If there is a piece of software
you want, you just type 'yun install <name>', and it is installed with
all its dependencies. It can also update existing packages. It can
even update the kernel, although a reboot is required. There is a
graphical client these days, but I've never tried it.
I use yum with Fedora, but there are yum repos for Centos (a RHEW
repackage).
If anyone out there is still managing their Linux machines without
either yum or apt, please, have a look. (Fedora used to use both, but
most people seem to have adopted yum in preference to apt. I have no
idea if there is any technical reason to prefer one over the other.)
[And in answer to the original question my advice is: keyboards are
cheap, your time is expensive. Try borrowing a keyboard with a
different interface: usb or ps/2. My new FC4 install didn't recognise
my ps/2 keyboard, so I switched it for a usb one.]
