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 -- Raymond C. Rodgers <rh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
