AMD64-based Laptop ~ Keyboard Unresponsive in Installer

[Mike Larkin]

Alan,

    I had the same problem with 2.6.0 - 2.6.2. I built a boot disk from 
2.6.3 and things seem fixed. You might try again with 2.6.3 and see what 
your results are.

    However, I did not go to the effort to actually do a complete 
install of FC with 2.6.3.. I just booted to a shell and things worked, 
so I don't see why the complete system install wouldn't as well.

-ml

Alan Santos wrote:

> To sort of hijack this thread, As Justin pointed out, a usb keyboard 
> will work. But I'm interested to hear if anyone has installed an amd64 
> (or whatever it's going to be called now) 2.6 kernel on this machine 
> (or the 6805).
>
> I'm unable to do so, for what looks like a similar reason:
> booting with any of the 2.6 kernel rpms results in a message about an 
> unkown key being pressed being printed over and over again, filling up 
> the screen and apparently hanging everything else.
> I don't have the exact message but it's from atkbd.c: and an unknown 
> key bwgin depressed on /dev/somethingorother.
> I only let it run for about 5 minutes in this state, so it may recover 
> later. I don't think it's the 2.6 kernel in general since I run 2.6.3, 
> although 32bit, on another partition.
>
> thanks
>
> Keith Tingle wrote:
>
>> Hello I have recently acquired an eMachines M6807 laptop. Its a pretty
>> spiffy Athlon64 3000+ Mobile-based notebook with ATI 9600 Mobility 
>> video. I
>> am attempting to install Fedora x86_64 Core 1 Test on the system and 
>> have
>> hit a small roadblock.
>> The laptop's keyboard is not recognized by the installer. I am able 
>> to type
>> parameters into the LILO boot: prompt, but once the installer fires 
>> up I get
>> the following line a few times during initialization:
>> pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x19)
>> and after that the keyboard is unresponsive, as if its been turned off
>> somehow.
>> Any assistance with this issue would be much appreciated, I have tried
>> several combinations of kernel options but without much luck or 
>> knowledge of
>> what exactly I am attempting to do :|.
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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