Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 01:29:09 PM bcb wrote: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, ... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted

[CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread bcb
OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread m . roth
bcb wrote: snip I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread bcb
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: bcb wrote: snip I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread m . roth
bcb wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: bcb wrote: snip I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:55:17PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: bcb wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: bcb wrote: snip I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 12:34 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following: OK, I know what I'm doing is officially unsupported, but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread bcb
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all of the el5 packages to el6 ones except for the various

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all of the

Re: [CentOS] keyboard problem

2011-08-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 8/9/2011 1:22 PM bcb spake the following: On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:24 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I would do my best to eliminate any el5 leftovers, and replace with el6 versions. It will only come back later and bite you... Of course!. At the moment, I've eliminated/upgraded all of the

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 22:53 -0700, MHR wrote: Perhaps, but wouldn't it get a bigger kick, if you will, by replacing the keyboard batteries? Replacing the batteries has no effect on the receiver that's plugged into your computer, and that's the part that's most likely getting the kick when you

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-17 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: Replacing the batteries has no effect on the receiver that's plugged into your computer, and that's the part that's most likely getting the kick when you reboot. If it's a problem with either the keyboard or the receiver,

[CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
I've had a Logitech cordless desktop on my primary desktop for the last few years, and every once in a while the number pad would just go out - the enter key and num-lock would still work, but of all the others would do nothing except the 5, which would pop-up a subwindow in some app on the screen

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a Logitech cordless desktop on my primary desktop for the last few years, and every once in a while the number pad would just go out - the enter key and num-lock would still work, but of all the others would do nothing

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 18:02 -0700, MHR wrote: I'm going to reboot to see what happens, but I'd be really, really disappointed if it all just comes back to life (meaning that it *is* a problem in the system and not the hardware) You can't guarantee that, either way. It could still be a

Re: [CentOS] Keyboard problem

2010-04-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: You can't guarantee that, either way.  It could still be a problem with the hardware (firmware) in the keyboard and when you reboot it gets a kick and restarts. Perhaps, but wouldn't it get a bigger kick, if you will, by