Re: Keyboard horkage on powerbook
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
>
> The other day, I apt-get upgraded my system to whatever was available at
> the time. One of the things messages I got during the install was that I
> needed to recompile my kernel to change the way it does keyboard mapping.
> Now since I rebooted it, of course, my keyboard doesn't work. Pressing
> any key produces some unexpected character.
Why didn't you reconfigure the kernel as suggested?
> How do I fix this? Is there a kernel command line I can use to get my old
> keyboard behavior back? I can't exactly log in to the thing when it's
> keyboard doesn't work.
Add keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the yaboot append line, again as
suggested in the debconf warning.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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