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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