On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:33 pm, Dragos wrote: > hello, > the subject is a little misleading, it boots, but the keyboard wont work. > let me tell you the story... > assembled a dual machine PIII500/i440bx; took a disk from another machine > (debian woody) to test if it comes up (the dual machine doesn't have it's > own disk yet); the POST is ok, I can enter the BIOS, make changes, etc...; > however, at some point during booting, the keyboard stops working, so I > cannot login; it was a kernel compiled by me (2.4.10), so I thought it was > my mistake; ok, booted 2.4.9-686 (debian), same behaviour; if I boot in > single user mode, it suddenly works! withn every kernel! the keyboard is ok > (it's the one that I use now), the other system which the disk was taken > from is an mendocino 633 with the same chipset, i440bx, except is > uniprocessor. I do not have a clue about this, it's like the kernel has no > driver compiled for the keyboard. Oh, and I forgot to mention, the kernels > boots on their system, and the keyboard is standard (PS2). > Anybody on this? > > dragos
arghhhhhhh, forget it...it was gpm! it was starting in runlevel2 and I didn't had a mouse... damn it cheers, dragos
