>s I said, the first step is to simply buy a cheapo modern PS/2 or USB >keyboard and see if the problem goes away. If it does, try a USB >adapter on the Model M. If that works, great. If not, more >troubleshooting awaits you. :(
OK. btw I have usb mouse. Machine only has a single ps2 port, coloured half purple half pink. So if I boot into recovery and startx (no gdm) I still get reboot on Alt-Ctrl-F1. If I use a cheapo ps2 kb, same problem. If I use a usb keyboard, same problem. It seems to be an issue with X remapping some of the hardware control codes (I'm sure my terminology is bad). So as far as I can see It is not the kb. And as I said, I get weird behaviour when I logout through the gui, making no use of the KB at all. I have used this kb with squeeze i386 no worries. I have also used it on slack 12.2 i386. I am wondering if it relates to the AMD64 port in some nefarious way. I am going to boot a live disk and see if my machine behaves then. So far, it looks really weird. It does not seem to be hardware since if I boot to CLI I get a well-behaved system. Does X add a layer that reinteprets all the signals regarding reboot, Alt-Ctrl-F1, etc, and could it be getting them wrong? I get the bad behaviour if I don't load HAL, btw. Whatever HAL is. Many thanks Darren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8ce1fff0455e3c91c28f1dceddb492a4.squir...@rsc.anu.edu.au
