I just installed RH6 from the network, but the install went fine--I skipped X (wanting to configure it later), and when it rebooted it came up to the login: prompt but does not accept keyboard input. lilo: and booting single-user will accept keyboard input. This is on a brand new Toshiba Tecra 8000.
Could this have something to do with a mistakenly configured keyboard?
If it is mistakenly configured, it is by the redhat install, all I have done is install and reboot--and the keyboard doesn't work.
I too have experienced this With my Toshiba Tecra 8000. I just created a new bootable Red Hat install CD from files that I dl'ed from a mirror site. The install works well on a IBM 300PL, but the keyboard does not work after I install using the new CD on my Tecra. The Red Hat CD that I created contains all of latest updated RPMS
I think that it has to do with the updated modules, and not the installation. I can install the original RH 6.0 distribution, with no errors, and the keyboard works fine.
*** Bug 2276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It's usually around the httpd server -- and it totally stops working, though the machine is still okay. I can't even use the SysRq stuff. Usually wind up having to power-down if I'm not on the network. NOTE: The keyboard *usually* works if I load XDM. NOTE: This is true for both Rawhide and 5.9, but it worked fine under 5.2 and prior revs. I did a disk wipe before installing 5.9, so I don't think it was anything residual from the Rawhide install.
assigned to dledford, Cc:ed Alan on it.
I just ran into this installing RH6 (from a Cheapbytes CD) onto a friends' Toshiba Satellite 4080CDT. The install went fine (other than not having a valid X server), but didn't respond to the keyboard when we got as far as the login: prompt. I'd already booted the system from a tom's root/boot disk so I knew it worked in some situations. I rebooted in single user mode and things worked Ok. Following a hunch, I stopped gpm from coming up by setting MOUSETYPE="none" in /etc/sysconfig/mouse and that cleared it. The installer had probed the mouse as being a PS/2 mouse on /dev/psaux; I don't know whether that's correct or not at the moment, but it looks like gpm tries to do something with the mouse and/or the keyboard which causes both to lock up. ------- Additional Comments From 09/23/99 13:23 ------- Hy, I also have a T8000, installed RH6 like a charm and...keyboard locked at the login prompt ! Solution : in /etc/inittab replace the first mingetty by getty Next have to reconfigure the terminal to be Linux... Maybe try to have a new version of mingetty and recompile it. Hope this helps ! Cedric Brossard cedric.brossard
Turning off gpm should solve the problem. It's hardware weirdness.