I hit trouble this morning. It happened this way.
/Case History
Having recently given away my last spare keyboard, my kids hit mouse
trouble (ps2 legacy 20th century/antique mouse)in windows. They
immediately balmed the mouse, and I immediately blamed windows and them,
because a reboot to linux fixed the problem. This happened last night.
/End Case History
This morning, my keyboard is not recognized in linux. I see no error,
but can't log in in either of my existing systems with 2.4 kernels.
It reads at the grub stage, reads under windows, but I can't login to
linux which is a little frustrating. NO errors are logged.
Tom's floppy linux (2.0/2.2 kernel) and the 2.6.10 kernel still see the
<expletive deleted> keyboard. The mouse is dead, apparently. The
keyboard problems remain despite powerdowns and long waits, poweroffs,
mouse removal etc. The 2.6 kernel is no solution because that flavour of
LFS-5.0 never shows me a cursor except on tty1. There was a handy
workaround (some command I could type) to throw up a cursor but I have
forgotten it :-(.
What's blown? Best guesses please. Super I/O chip? Keyboard?
Does anyone have a breeze what's going on with the 2.6 kernel and the
cursor?
BTW, another headache looms. That's the second mouse in a short period
that I have lost in the same stupid way... the internal cpu going stupid
and doing the equivelant of dropping it's trousers and singing the wrong
national anthem...weird
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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