[Q] Keyboard does not respond from the console

[Steven Hanley]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:17:14PM +1000, Damien Elmes wrote:
> "Donovan J. Edye" <d.edye at bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> one guess is that GPM is being loaded and is taking out your keyboard
> (who knows why :-). you can check its not your system keymap by
> entering 'linux single' at the LILO prompt.

I saw this happen on a machine with no psaux support and a ps2 keyboard
plugged in, when gpm was started the keyboard became completely unusable. My
guess is for some reason gpm does something that takes over ps2 devices and
messes with them. (this was debian, testing AFAIR)

        See You
            Steve

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