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Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot



>s I said, the first step is to simply buy a cheapo modern PS/2 or USB
>keyboard and see if the problem goes away.  If it does, try a USB
>adapter on the Model M.  If that works, great.  If not, more
>troubleshooting awaits you. :(


OK.

btw I have usb mouse.  Machine only has a single ps2 port, coloured half
purple half pink.

So if I boot into recovery and startx  (no gdm) I still get reboot on
Alt-Ctrl-F1.  If I use a cheapo ps2 kb, same problem.  If I use a usb
keyboard, same problem.  It seems to be an issue with X remapping some of
the hardware control codes (I'm sure my terminology is bad).

So as far as I can see It is not the kb.  And as I said, I get weird
behaviour when I logout through the gui, making no use of the KB at all.

I have used this kb with squeeze i386 no worries.  I have also used it on
slack 12.2 i386.  I am wondering if it relates to the AMD64 port in some
nefarious way.  I am going to boot a live disk and see if my machine
behaves then.

So far, it looks really weird.  It does not seem to be hardware since if I
boot to CLI I get a well-behaved system.  Does X add a layer that
reinteprets all the signals regarding reboot, Alt-Ctrl-F1, etc, and could
it be getting them wrong?  I get the bad behaviour if I don't load HAL,
btw.  Whatever HAL is.

Many thanks

Darren


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