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 -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~hender97/
