(snip)............................................. > The closest I got was using vmlinux-2.4.19-32 and an XF86Config-4 file with keyboard and mouse settings very similar to those at > the ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/712/XF86Config-4.Hildebrandt page, except I did not have the lines - since my keyboard is > not German: > Option "XkbLayout" "de" and > Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > Under these conditions, my keyboard worked sometimes correctly (but intermittently): i.e. sometimes - after rebooting - I would > find that I could type correct characters at the GDM prompt, and I could even login correctly into the GDM desktop but, I could > never get the mouse to work at all, so the GUI was essentially useless. So I could only get out of that situation by telneting > into the HP715 Linux OS, from another machine, in order to control it or reboot it. Most often, though, with the same kernel > and XF86Config-4 file, the keyboard (and mouse) would not work at all when the machine displayed the GDM prompt. (Notice that > this is quite different from the original problem I had with the vmlinux-2.4.17-32 kernel - in that case, the keyboard always > worked, predictably, but generated wrong characters for every key).
I forgot to mention a possible clue in my previous message: whenever the keyboard worked OK at the GDM prompt, if I killed the main gdm process (either before or after logging in to gdm) - by telneting to the HP715 from another machine - the keyboard continued working properly and I could log-in and operate the machine from the command prompt of HP715 system console. But, if I did the same thing when the keyboard did not work at the GDM prompt, the keyboard would still not function even after killing the main gdm process. I am not sure what to make out of this, but that's what happened. Best regards, Jaime
