"Keyboard Request ---edit /etc/inttab to let this work." error
Get this error whenever I press the up-arrow. I looked in inittab and it says you get this when you press Alt+Up...however I'm not pressing Alt.
Is my Alt key stuck? Problem seems intermittent and would probably explain very odd behavior of being able to switch ttys by _only_ pressing F1,F2,...etc and other problems where whenever I type something it ^[ is prepended (for example if I try to login as root: ^[R^[O^[O^[T) This is a Dell Latitude C840 Laptop, which was bought used meaning it's entirely possible the keyboard has some sticky keys, but has anyone seen this type of problem. It happens regarless of X running or not (happened on the text-based installation - debian sarge 2.1) |
If it happens in X and outside of X then I would be tempted to say there is a physical problem with your keyboard.
The reason I say this is that X has its own keyboard drivers and so does the Linux console, and to have the exact same problem with both is pretty unlikely. |
Yup it was the keyboard. Laptop was defective.
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