[Q] Keyboard does not respond from the console

[jeremy at itassist.net.au]

On  7 Oct, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:02:30PM +1000, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
>> 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.

Chiming in slightly late here.  I had this problem when installing
Progeny Debian earlier this year, and ended up giving away my copy
because of it.  Back with Debian, it occured when I upgraded to XFree
4.02  (or was it 4.03?) from 4.01

I'm pretty sure it was the Xservers fault, because when I downgraded
everything worked again. 

I think you will find if you repeatedly hammer Ctrl+Alt+F1 during the
boot sequence you will end up in a vterm where you can type normally.
If this is the case, take the opportunity to do something about your
version of X.

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