--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S. Hayes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've had Debian dual-booted with Win XP on my > portable for about six > > months. I haven't worked all the bugs out yet, but > I've been getting > > better! And I try using it for more of my personal > work (my job > > requires Windows at the moment). > > > > Yesterday while at work, I was installing a > package (R - > > language/stats/graphing package) using dselect > and, since there were > > some required package upgrades, installed a couple > of those also... > > while working on my desktop (fool that I am) and > being interrupted > > occasionally with other people asking questions... > > > > Somewhere - and I think this was in the > configuration of a new xdm, > > but I'm not sure - there was a screen explaining a > setup of keyboards > > and the choices I would be asked to choose from. > This probably wasn't > > a good time to do all of this, but hind sight is > always 20/20. I > > picked a "don't touch my keyboard" choice, > thinking it would leave the > > present arrangement (which was fine). Since > rebooting this morning I > > cannot log in at the X prompt. My mouse works > fine, I have the X > > Window login prompt (provided by xdm I think) but > every key on my > > keyboard does nothing except toggle the display > window through three > > size variations... I can do nothing but manually > kill the power (with > > all the corrupted files resulting). > > > > Help... what, in my arrogant > > getting-to-feel-pretty-comfortable-with-Linux > stupidity, did I do to > > myself? > > > > I'm trying to work my way through the > initialization files and the xdm > > config, but I haven't had any luck so far... > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > > > > Mournfully back in Windows... > > > > > > Pete > > If your machine is on the network and you have ssh > installed, you can > ssh in and make repairs, thus avoiding the power-off > scenario. > Does Ctrl-Alt-F1 get you to a console, or just > toggle the display window > as you mention above? If it gets you to a console, > does the keyboard > work properly there? > > I'm not sure how to fix the keyboard mapping, but > I'm responding in the > hope that these questions might spur a line of > thinking that'll get you > further towards repair. > > -- > Kent > If Kent idea doesn't work...
Maybe you could modyfy XFree86.conf from the windows side using explore2fs? But I know the write to linux partition feature is experimental and I haven't tried this out. This can be risky, but if nothing else comes up... Eric __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
