Bug#314183: installation-reports: HP pavillion ze5000 keyboard hangs during installation

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@gmail.com>]

On 8/29/05, Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 06:53, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > In all the above configurations, the boot cd starts fine but the
> > keyboard becomes unresponsive after some time. I cannot change to
> > ctrl-alt-f1 etc., because the keyboard becomes unrecognized very soon.
> > Due to this, I cannot make the country choice etc., making Debian
> > uninstallable on this laptop.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply...
> 
> What do you mean exactly with "after some time"? Some time during the boot
> or after you have finished the "keyboard configuration" step of the
> installation?
> The only solution we have seen for the first situation is to change the
> BIOS setting for something like "legacy (USB) keyboard support". Note: we
> have had one report where this would make the built-in keyboard unusable
> although an external keyboard would still work OK.
> 

I get the screen where I have to make a choice of country. Once this
screen is presented, the key board hangs. I cannot change to
ctrl-alt-f1 etc., The caps lock does not work either.

raju