>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Douglas> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 10:05, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have just upgraded from FC1 to FC2 this morning. After
>> re-booting the system, kudzu prompt screen came up, but no
>> matter which key I pressed, kudzu was not invoked.
>>
>> Matters became clearer when I tried to login - there is no
>> response from the keyboard.
>>
>> I've tried booting with various kernel options, but nothing I
>> try seems to get my keyboard back.
>>
>> I'm now logging on via telnet from my firewall machine. I'm
>> running a yum update to see if that will fix the problem. I
>> get the message:
>>
>> Error getting file
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-2/headers/headers.info
>>
>> Yum seems to be continuing, although nothing has appeared in
>> the log.
>>
>> If I now run kudzu from the command line, It reports that USB
>> hub number 2 has been removed from my system. My keyboard is
>> NOT a USB keyboard, and in any case, it works with GRUB at boot
>> time.
>>
>> My mouse IS a USB mouse, but this IS working.
Douglas> I had a similar problem before, and wasn't sure what the
Douglas> problem was.
Douglas> however I found that disabling gpm resolved the problem.
Douglas> After further investigation, i found that on some
Douglas> motherboards, if the mouse is set up as a PS2 mouse, but
Douglas> is in actual fact a USB then this problem occurs.
Douglas> I resolved it by dissabling gpm (chkconfig --level 345
Douglas> gpm off), then starting up and configuring the mouse
Douglas> (redhat-config-mouse service-config-mouse) and making
Douglas> sure it was USB, then re-enabling gpm every thing worked
Douglas> fine.
I just tried this - my mouse was set up as a USB mouse, so I don't
think this is my problem (as I said - the mouse works, just not the
keyboard).
I'm going to re-boot now, just in case.
--
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
