keyboard problem

M_Barbieri · 04-27-2005, 07:53 AM

Hi everybody.
I have a problem: I've just updated some rpm and now my keyboard doesn't work.
It's not an hardware failure because I'm writing this post (in Windows

).
During boot the keyboard works but when X starts and kdm is launched I can't write my password.
One of the rpms that I updated was lineaK, don't know if this could be the cause.

How to remove lineakd from automatic start at boot?
What could cause the keyboard problem?

Thank you

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M_Barbieri

abisko00 · 04-27-2005, 08:46 AM

Are you sure the keyboard doesn't react? Maybe the password doesn't show-up and you need to type it blind (I remember there is a setting in the KDE control center to set this).

If you have a keyboard outside of X, you can try and check the X logfiles: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, /var/log/kdm.log, ~/.X.err, ~/.xsession-errors

Sorry, I can't be more specific about the file, since I don't know where this type of error is logged.

M_Barbieri · 04-27-2005, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by abisko00
Are you sure the keyboard doesn't react? Maybe the password doesn't show-up and you need to type it blind (I remember there is a setting in the KDE control center to set this).

Yes, I'm sure. I can't even type the login, or ctrl-alt-F6.

Quote:

If you have a keyboard outside of X, you can try and check the X logfiles: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, /var/log/kdm.log, ~/.X.err, ~/.xsession-errors

Sorry, I can't be more specific about the file, since I don't know where this type of error is logged.

I've tried reading these file, but no significant errors.
Any idea?

stumper · 04-28-2005, 09:13 PM

If you are using Grub to boot,
edit the root= line and add "single"
to boot into the single mode.
I have a similar problem
after installing kdm to Ubuntu;
Try gdm or xdm.
Both work fine in Ubuntu.