Keyboard Issues on Slack 9.1 Bootup
 

Hey everyone,

I'm having a strange keyboard issue with slackware 9.1

Whenever I install it, I get everything to work perfectly, accept for my keyboard. Right after the install, I reboot, and while the boot process is in progress, I am able to turn on/off the 'lock' keys such as Caps Lock, and I am able to type letters into the command line. However, once the boot process is over and I enter the login part, where I need to type my username and password, the keyboard suddenly stops responding. The lock keys no longer work and no letters appear. I am unable to ctrl+alt+delete to restart the machine, so I know for a fact that somehow the keymap is not being loaded, but I have no idea why or how to fix the problem.

It does say that it is loading the us keymap.

This does not happen with any other distro I have such as Gentoo, Debian, or Knoppix. I am out of ideas. All and any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Aman9090

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Yep, had the exact same problem..

Its to do with your gpm (mouse deamon which starts up in boot time so you can use your mouse in the command line)

Let it boot, then when its all done, ssh into it from another comoputer, you will have full access.

Afterwards, type mouseconfig, and set your mouse correctly,

I think in my case, my mouse was microsoft intellipoint USB, and i selected imps2 and it didnt work.. i switched to USB, or ps/2, .. forgot which one, and rebooted and everything worked..

Try it out, try each one of them, and reboot, and see if that solvs the problem


HTH

My bad...

It's the other way round.. I had it on USB, then PS/2, and then i put it on Imps2, and it worked.