On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:43, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: > 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? By the overwhelming lack of response to this message, I take it this has been a unique experience... Does anyone have any possible solutions for it? Raymond -- Raymond C. Rodgers <rh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
