Re: unresponsive keyboard
On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that
> time my keyboard became unresponsive. It's not a hardware problem as it
> works when I boot into Ubuntu on the same HD. The strangest thing is that
> sometimes I can boot into squeeze and type my login password
> successfully and sometimes the keyboard is dead so I can't log in. When
> I can boot in, the GUI works but I can't become root to try and trouble
> shoot.
>
> All this only happens with squeeze which has been running flawlessly ever
> since 6.01 when I first installed it.
>
> Short of reinstalling, I have no idea how to attack this. Running
> searches turned up nothing applicable, unless I missed it, Any pointers
> appreciated.
Interestingly, 5 of your 6 postings to this list since 12/22/2012 have
to do with keyboard problems of one sort or another.
Interestingly, no one else seems to be reporting such issues.
Blow away any kb config files you've modified and restore the default files.
--
Stan
Reply to: