Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144952
keyboard stops responding
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:28 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Please help - I'm a linux newbie and having trouble installing Fedora. When I boot from the first CD, I get the boot screen OK. At this point the keyboard is fine, the num lock light is on and I can hit enter to carry on. During the boot all my harware seems to be detected OK but half way through I noticed that the num lock light went out and then stays off. When the install starts I cannot get further that the first screen because the keyboard is no longer responding. The keyboard is a HP USB keyboard, but I don't think this is going to make a difference because I've read some other postson other sites that describe the same problem but when using a standard PS2 keyboard. It is not a fault with the keyboard as I have tried numerous different keyboards that all work under Windows and also off linux KDE on cd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot off of a FC3 installation disk. 2.Choose either graphical or text installation mode 3.Keyboard stops responding after hardware detection Additional info:
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.