My friend owns a number of Compaq machines and he also experiences
lookup of keyboard, almost allways at bootup. Changing the keyboard to
a non-Compaq one seems to help here.
Kees
On
Sun,
28 Feb 1999, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > This _kind_ of thing has happened before with this keyboard, just a few
> > days ago: the keyboard stops responding to things like CapsLock, and a
> > reset doesn't help. It seems very much like a hardware problem to me.
>
> I had problems with keyboard (not PS/2) too, unfortunately they
> are not reproducible. The failure mode is basically:
>
> - I reboot using ctrl-alt-del
> - The keyboard is dead during the boot - the ESC does not
> interrupt the memory check, no input to LILO possible etc.
> - Linux booting process does not correct the situation
> - Hard reset (even during the memory check) brings the kbd
> back to normal
>
> This is QDI Commander PPro mainboard and 6+ years old
> Chicony keyboard. The keyboard had its own problems
> in the past, but 10 minutes with the soldering iron
> resolved them :-)
>
> The first time it happened was some late 2.1.x and appr.
> 4 times since then. It did not happened at any other
> occassion as the reboot. As this is very rare situation,
> I have no idea, whether kbd-reset kernel option helps.
>
> Regards
> --
> Stano
>
>
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