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Old 05-08-2006, 04:37 PM   #1
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lost keyboard


Hi

While my debian/testing linux 2.6.15 i686 was on, and all is fine, it went to a screen saver, I moved the mouse to get back in but I don’t have a keyboard input, the mouse works but no keyboard, how do I go about this. I am using other box to make this post.

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Old 05-08-2006, 05:00 PM   #2
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Can you ssh into the box, then su to root and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, which should allow you to reconfigure your keyboard? Or just try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to reboot the xserver?
 
Old 05-08-2006, 06:22 PM   #3
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no ssh here, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing, I used the mouse to iceWm>logoff to the console, where there is a line saying
waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/:7100" refcont is 2, should be 1; fixing.

user@debian:~$
should I hit the reset?
 
Old 05-08-2006, 10:45 PM   #4
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Ok, after I hit reset, the box rebooted, I get
"keyboard error or no keyboard present", after few resets it booted and all worked fine. no idea why, I would like to know why, if any one knows, please turn the lihgts on here.


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Old 05-08-2006, 11:19 PM   #5
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If the BIOS is telling you there is no keyboard present, then there is a problem with your keyboard. Try blowing out the connectors.
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Last edited by DanTaylor; 05-08-2006 at 11:21 PM.
 
  


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