[Q] Keyboard does not respond from the console

Sun Oct 7 15:21:53 EST 2001

G'Day All,

I have a 2.4.9 kernel and am running the unstable distribution. I have a
very strange occurrence here. When the system boots up and displays a login
prompt at the console there is no keyboard response. I can toggle the
numlock key and see the indicator led toggle on and off. However pressing a
key does nothing and I cannot log on. I can however telnet into the box with
no ill effects. To ensure that the keyboard etc. is OK if I reboot the box
using a DOS boot disk the keyboard is fine and I can type away to my hearts
content. I do remember that I answered some questions after running apt-get
dist-upgrade to do with the keyboard. However for the life of me I cannot
remember what the packages etc were. I do remember answering that my
keyboard is qwerty and US.

Any suggestions or pointers?

Also - I am unsure if this is related, but if I have a telnet session into
the affected box and I then start bind and ppp the "s" key stops responding.
I can no longer type an "s"

pppd version 2.4.1
bind 9.1.3-1

I also include below my boot messages in case they are of any use.

TIA

--Donovan

Linux version 2.4.9 (root at lisa2) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian
GNU/Linux)
) #8 Thu Oct 4 05:04:16 EST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 12288 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 300.688 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62380k/65536k available (941k kernel code, 2772k reserved, 347k
data, 17
2k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v1.8
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI en
abled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding Swap: 441776k swap-space (priority -1)
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe400, IRQ 10, 00:00:E8:78:50:49.

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