[Comm-en] ALT Linux's Junior 2.2 Keyboard Lockup

[Matthew Cuddy]

Still not working. I tried  "chkconfig gpm off" but didn't unistall gpm. BTW I have both ps2 mouse and keyboard


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:31:02 +0300
To: community-en at altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] ALT Linux's Junior 2.2 Keyboard Lockup

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Matthew Cuddy wrote:
> > The mouse still worked, allowing me to select a user, but the
> > keyboard didn't work, so I couldn't log in. 
> 
> Seen the message that gpm may cause such behaviour facing mouse
> problems.  While I can't recall objective reasons for that other
> than serial mouse and a PS/2 keyboard _with_ a faulty PS/2
> controller which will freeze the keyboard when trying to access
> absent PS/2 mouse (it's not uncommon hardware glitch), this may
> help:
> 
> * boot into single mode (add "single" to "linux-up" line in
>   bootloader)
> * after logging in with your root password, enter:
> 
> 	chkconfig gpm off
>   
>   or even (if you don't use mouse in console mode):
> 
> 	rpm -e gpm
> 
> * type "exit" to get into normal runlevel.
> 
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