Re: Installation: input device lock on first graphic screen

[Kent West]

Charles Muller wrote:

When I try to install either Woody bf24 or Sarge on my Dell Dimension XPS
8250 the keyboard and mouse lock up at the moment after transition from the
text part of the install to the first graphic screen "Choose Language." 

 

The mouse won't be active at this point anyway, so to say the mouse 
locks up isn't quite accurate.

Does the capslock light work if you toggle the capslock? Does Alt-F2 
have any effect?

I searched the archives, and I found the same problem reported by someone
with an XPS 8250 six months ago. He had a wireless mouse and keyboard, and
was assuming that the problem was there. But I have a standard keyboard and
USB mouse, so I would guess that's not the problem. My Video card is an
NVidia GeForce4, with 64 MB RAM. (I wrote to him to see if he solved it,
but so far no answer).
I tried a number of boot options, including "noacip", "vga16:off", "nofb",
"nopcmcia", "noA7xxx...", and just about every other option that I thought
might conceivably be related, to no avail.
 

I'd pop a Knoppix CD in and boot off that to see if it works, just for 
information gathering purposes.

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Kent
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