[Q] Keyboard does not respond from the console

Donovan J. Edye d.edye at bigfoot.com
Sun Oct 7 23:02:30 EST 2001 

G'Day,

Just to add to this. The NUM lock toggles just until prior to the login
prompt appearing. Then it will not toggle. Furthermore I found the following
in the logs and cannot help wondering if it is related.

module char-major-108

--D 

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		Sent:	Sunday, 7 October 2001 15:22
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		Subject:	[Q] Keyboard does not respond from the
console

		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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