keyboard Problem

[melgrim]

Hi

I have just upgraded my FC1 to the FC2 and my keyboard stoped working!

It worked fine during the instalation, and it worked in FC1, but now it's dead!

It works in GRUB but after that, it stops working, I can't even use it on the kudzu dialog that keeps showing when I boot up!

The keyboard is standard PS/2.
Hope I can help...

[jcstille]

Although I do not know the answer you may want to keep an eye on http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123535

Does your mouse work?

[melgrim]

Tanks for the link I'll keep an eye on it.

And yes the mouse works, but it uses a usb port.

[jcstille]

ok, I will try and look continue looking.

[melgrim]

Well I insisted on making it work, and after several atempts it finally worked!

What i did was:
1. Boot up the pc.
2. Selected FC2 in the grub menu.
As espected my keyboard stoped working...
3. A kudzu dialog apeared during the fedora boot up (As it have been appening ever since I made the upgrade).
4. I hit twice Caps Lock key, and for my surprise, the dialog stoped the count down as if some key had been pressed.
5. The kudzu claimed that the keyboard had been removed from the sistem.
6. I selected "Do nothing" (with my keyboard :D).
7. The boot up ended with no errors and the keyboard was working!
8. Rebooted the system and all went normaly.

Don't know if it will work for anyone with the problem, but it worked for me (don't really know why :|)

[jcstille]

Well hey thats good. Hardware is always wierd to fiddle with. But hey, now we know.

[Motor]

Originally posted by jcstille
Well hey thats good. Hardware is always wierd to fiddle with. But hey, now we know.

I've been messing about installing the FC2 2.6 kernel on a FC1 box to see what happens (you can see my adventures on the "FC1 -> F2, but not all at once thread"... and I've just had this same problem when booting with the 2.6 kernel.

I'd boot with the 2.6 kernel... no keys work. Boot with the 2.4 kernel... everything works fine. So I powered off the machine... left it off for 30 seconds, started it with the 2.6 kernel and it worked. I have no idea why...

It's a PS/2 keyboard.

[melgrim]

Well it seems that there are still some problems to solve, but this FC2 looks very nice.

And it seems faster that my old FC1 :D

[Motor]

Originally posted by melgrim
Well it seems that there are still some problems to solve, but this FC2 looks very nice.

And it seems faster that my old FC1 :D

I've been doing a bit of archive reading, and one suggestion seemed reasonable: Disable the legacy USB keyboard support in the BIOS. Apparently, this tries to make a USB keyboard (also mouse) look like a PS2 device, and this can cause problems with the new code in 2.6. I did it, and I've booted 2.6 twice without the dead keyboard problem. Not conclusive since the problem was intermitent, but it may be worth a try. Let use know what happens. Good luck.