Keyboard lockup
Hello all,
I have a major problem with my Linux box. I am running the unstable
version of Debian, and my system has been running fine for months. No
major problems. This morning I booted up my machine and discovered my
keyboard will not work in Linux. Here's the scenario:
LILO comes up and I hit Enter to boot linux. The boot process proceeds
in the normal fashion. No error messages, everything is fine. Then
the GDM login box comes up so I can log in to X. At this point the
keyboard doesn't work. I can't type in my username. I tried pressing
CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a virtual terminal, but that won't work either.
Nothing. It's as if the keyboard completely died.
At first I thought that my XF86Config-4 file got messed up somehow. So
I rebooted and typed "linux single" at the boot prompt so I could boot
to a command line. I re-ran the xf86config program and re-created the
config file. This didn't solve the problem.
A friend of mine mentioned that maybe there was some sort of conflict
with gpm, but I do not have gpm installed, so that's not it either.
I am at a loss as to what the problem could be. I know for a fact that
it is NOT a hardware problem, because the keyboard works fine in
Windows. I did not install any new software, or make any changes to
the system whatsoever. In fact, I have been using windows for a few
days and I haven't even been using Linux. Linux had been running fine
for months until this morning. This problem seems to have appeared out
of the blue.
If I cannot find a fix I will be forced (as a last resort) to backup my
important files and format the partition and reinstall Linux and see if
that works. I really don't want to go down that road if I don't have
to. If anyone can give me any help at all I would greatly appreciate
it. Thanks in advance.
Casey
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Casey Henderson
Casey@umit.maine.edu
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~hender97/
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