Re: SUSE 9.0 keyboard not working
I tried downloading and installing the latest NVidia drivers to no avail I'm afraid. Any other suggestions ? Cheers, Sean.
I have just installed SUSE 9.0 on my trusty AMD K6-2/500 which has been running lots of versions of SUSE from 6.4 up and including 7.3 quite happily. The install for 9.0 goes well. However when I reboot the machine and it gets to the graphical logon screen the keyboard doesn't work. The mouse works OK though. If I boot failsafe the keyboard works perfectly in text mode. Anyone got any suggestions ?
I had the same problem on a totally diffirent setup that included a Nvidia
graphics card and concerned the nvidia driver that comes with Suse 9. When I downloaded the real Nvidia driver from Suse the problem was solved. Not supposed to work that way but it did. Hope this helps. Rich
My system is as follows:
FIC VA-503+ Mb AMD K6-2/500 CPU 512Mb RAM Creative TNT1 Video card 16Mb Promise Ultra 66 controller 1x17Gb Maxtor (onboard controller - boot) 1x8.4Gb IBM (onboard controller) 1x120Gb Seagate (promise) 1x40Gb IBM (promise) 1x60Gb Maxtor (promise) 1x30Gb IBM (promise) 1xAOpen DVD-ROM (onboard controller) 1xMicrosoft Natural Keyboard Pro (PS2 connector) 1xMicrosoft Intellimouse (COM 1)
Keyboard and mouse connected via an Adderview GEM KVM
As I said, all previous versions of SUSE Linux up to 7.3 have worked perfectly on this machine so I'm stumped by why 9.0 doesn't work properly.
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:09, seana@romaxtech.com wrote:
I have just installed SUSE 9.0 on my trusty AMD K6-2/500 which has been running lots of versions of SUSE from 6.4 up and including 7.3 quite happily. The install for 9.0 goes well. However when I reboot the
machine
and it gets to the graphical logon screen the keyboard doesn't work. The mouse works OK though. If I boot failsafe the keyboard works perfectly
in
text mode. Anyone got any suggestions ?
I had the same problem and posted earlier in the week to this issue. With the help of the list I finally got my machine sorted. In my case the issue was that Sax2 did not like my video card that is native on the Asus A7V8X-MX mother board. This is exclusive to SuSE9.0 and not 8.2. Why? I have no idea. However as sax2 would crap out it would dump the default setting to xconfig which it turned out to be german in my case. Why? I have no idea..:) Get the pattern here..:) So what it took was the following: 1. Manually editting /etc/sysconfig/keyboard Under Keytable it can read on of the following: KEYTABLE="" [This will default to US-en automagically] or better KEYTABLE="us.map.gz" 2. Manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config See Section "InputDevice" Driver "Keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard [0]" Option "MapName" "Standard Keyboard [ pc104 ] Option "Protocal" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection See Section "ServerLayout" (way at the bottom) Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection By correcting these values, this should resolve any issues with X if they are related to the video setup. If not well then you need to search other places by in most cases, its related to X issue. Best of luck, post if it works or fails for you. There are many here who help /ch
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