[Gloucs] no response from keyboard

[Dan Hanman]

"Dan Hanman" <dan@moskito.co.uk> wrote:

> Im new to the list so hello everyone.

Hello to you too.

> I have been trying to install redhat 7.3 and 8.0 on my pc, which is:
>
> Athlon 700,
> 256 133mhz RAM,
> via nmc-7va motherboard,
> 16MB TNT2 Graphics card,
> standard PS2 Keyboard and mouse.
>
> The installs of redhat goes fine (both versions), I install via text mode
> and the keyboard works fine. The box then reboots after finishing the
> install. When Linux gets to the shell prompt for me to login I get no
> response at all from the keyboard. Nothing. so I put on a serial adapter
on
> the ps2 keyboard and put that on the box, but still nothing. I can ping
the
> box, but cannot ssh/telnet to it. I have also tried changing to the
default
> bios settings and optimised setting but made no difference.

>Sounds very strange.  The fact that you can ping suggests he box is
>otherwise OK.  I think not being able to telnet/ssh is normal as its
>disabled by default.  Does this fail with a message that the connection
>was refused or does the connect just time out?  I believe if the box is
>working otherwise, it should refuse the connect rather than time out.

>Have you tried rebooting from install CDs in rescue mode?  If that works
>you could have a look around at the settings.  The keyboard stuff can be
>found in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard but the rescue boot puts your root into
>sysimage or some such (it does tell you).  You may be able to force a
>reconfiguration of the keyboard at the next boot but I don't now how to
>do that....  If you can rescue boot, you should be able to setup
telnet/ssh.
>
>Anyone else with any ideas?
>
>Paul
>
>P.S. my /etc/sysconfig/keyboard  (Redhat 8.0) says:

>KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
>KEYTABLE="uk"

Hi, thanks for the reply Paul,

Well got an update for you, after re-installing RH8.0 again but this time
with no firewall I am able to get in via SSH fine and keyboard work,
although I still have the problem with the keyboard not working directly in
the box.

my keyboard config say:
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="uk"

same as yours.

Anyway after logging on via ssh and running startx, up comes kde and the
keyboard works fine. dunno what the problem is running directly from the
shell, but at least I can use the system now. When I then exit out of SSH
remotely and KDE quits so  that it goes back to the shell, the keyboard
works and I can log in!?!

If anyone else has an idea what the problem is please let me know.

Thanks again.

Dan