From: "Matthew Cuddy" <mcuddy@baptized.com>
To: community-en@altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] ALT Linux's Junior 2.2 Keyboard Lockup
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:36:52 -0700
Message-ID: <20040727223652.108A1101C9@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> (raw)
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@osdn.org.ua>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:31:02 +0300
To: community-en@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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