Sudden keyboard problems after upgrade from RH9 to FC2

Raymond C. Rodgers rh at bbnk.dhs.org
Tue Aug 24 00:43:10 UTC 2004


I just "upgraded" my Red Hat 9 installation which had been very stable
for a long while to Fedora Core 2, and began to notice some problems
utilizing my PS/2 keyboard. The symptoms of the problem are loss of
keyboard functionality; meaning I can't type a single letter or even
toggle the num or caps locks. The issue arises sometimes when I attempt
to switch from one virtual terminal to another (say from X windows to a
command line via control-alt-F1), and almost always when I press the num
lock key (to turn on the number lock on the numeric keypad) at any point
during boot or running of FC2. I did not experience these problems under
RH9 and the other operating systems (BeOS, OpenBSD, Win2k) I run on this
system aren't affected similarly.

I struggled through most of the day to get the installation of Fedora up
to date (struggling first with up2date/up2date-nox and then resorting to
downloading the rpm's listed by up2date and installing them via rpm) but
the problem seems to have remained. When I first started FC2 after
installation I got an error message in X that suggested filing a bug
report with the results of what I believe "groff" with XKB if I remember
correctly. But it didn't present any answers to what was going wrong and
the symptoms I have are present even in Run Level 2, so I disregarded it
and no longer get the error message.

Anyone else have similar problems and/or (better yet) have a solution
other than avoiding the num lock?

Thanks,
Raymond Rodgers
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Raymond C. Rodgers <rh at bbnk.dhs.org>





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