Re: keybard doesn't work after upgrade
On 21-Nov-1999, Ben Lutgens <blutgens@mosquitonet.com> wrote:
> o.k. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday, after I rebooted my keyboard
> doesn't work in x, the bad part is I am using gdm and can't get to a vc. The
> machine is not on a network and does not dial automagically on boot up. When
> I try to boot with a rescue disk, I get "error allocating a virtual
> console". MY one option is to install linux on my doze partition then rm the
> gdm link from /etc/rc2.d. But I would like to avoid that if possible, if
> anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it. Also am wondering if
> anyone else had this problem. X is 3.3.5 that is new to potato, my video
> card is a diamond monster fusion, in a P200, 128MB RAM, blah blah etc. etc.
>
For these sort of situations I use a single floppy disk linux
distribution.
Here is the one I use
http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/
but you can find a few more at under the small distributions section
http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html
Pete
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