Re: FWD: Re: gimp, gnome, libgtk-perl, etc, etc

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On Dienstag, 27. November 2001 06:29, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:52:21PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> > I got the lifimage from the 2001-11-18 set that's on master.  I managed
> > to watch the boot enough times to see what's causing me a problem: it's
> > not seeing the HID keyboard at all and claims that it's not there.  I
> > tried unplugging the mouse from the keyboard (just in case), which didn't
> > help.  I did manage to get it booted once with the keyboard recognised,
> > but it behaved very badly and finally just stopped working when I was
> > trying to partition the disks.
>
> HIL keyboard support has always been rather flaky, I'm afraid.  A serial
> console will work better.

Hmm, I've never had any real problems with my HIL keyboard. The only 
problem I know of is, that sometimes after a "warm-boot" the keyboard
wasn't detected. Cold-boots never showed up this or any other problem.

Helge