Thanks for your suggestions: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > To enter text into the terminal, open up a file using your destop (like > say /etc/passwd), select one letter, then middle click in the terminal. > Will be slow, should work.
The problem with this is that I need to login before I can open a terminal, and the keyboard is nonfunctional from the start. I use gdm as login manager. I suppose I could configure it to auto-login to troubleshoot this problem, but I'd rather not eliminate password authentication as a condition of using the machine. > Perhaps your X server is improperly configured, and depending one what > keys you press after bootup, it sometimes misdetects your keyboard type? Hmm. I'm fairly certain the keyboard fails to work when I haven't pressed any keys yet (not even 'return' to select the kernel in GRUB--it usually just picks the first one after 5 seconds). I can't for the life of me think of what would make it occur only occasionally, though. > can you Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace the server? Nope, ctrl-alt-backspace is as nonfunctional as ctrl-alt-del. -- Adam Rosi-Kessel http://adam.rosi-kessel.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
