Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:

> > > Hmm. I'm fairly certain the keyboard fails to work when I haven't
> > > pressed any keys yet (not even 'return' to select the kernel in
> > > GRUB--it usually just picks the first one after 5 seconds). I can't
> > > for the life of me think of what would make it occur only
> > > occasionally, though.  
> > >      
> > My gut instinct is to declare, with a 98.625% confidence level, that
> > your keyboard/keyboard connector is flakey.  
> >    
>
> You may have missed the part where I said that I had this problem on two
> different laptops.  I was certain it was hardware as well on the first
> laptop (a Dell Latitude), but then I got a brand new IBM Thinkpad X40,
> and the same behavior occurred immediately out of the box.  The Latitude
> was nearly new as well.

Ah, yes, I did miss that.

>  What is your confidence level that two brand new
> laptops would both have the same keyboard/connector flakiness, that only
> occurs after the bootloader is done, but not before?
>  

I missed that as well.

My confidence level has dropped substantially now. Never mind.

--
Kent