On 1/8/2004, "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>When I try to install either Woody bf24 or Sarge on my Dell Dimension XPS >>8250 the keyboard and mouse lock up at the moment after transition from the >>text part of the install to the first graphic screen "Choose Language."
>Does the capslock light work if you toggle the capslock? No. > Does Alt-F2 >have any effect? No. AFAICT, my keyboard is completely dead. If I try to boot leaving on frame buffering, it locks up with the num-lock and caps-lock lights on. If I turn off frame buffering, these lights are off. But the deadness of the keyboard seems to be equal in both cases. >I'd pop a Knoppix CD in and boot off that to see if it works, just for >information gathering purposes. Actually, I already have a MEPIS installation on the hard drive, and of course MEPIS recognizes all of my hardware and installs with no problem. But I am not totally happy with it, because I lose some key Debian functions, such as apt-get upgrade (because MEPIS makes some changes in the kernel, so you can only upgrade when MEPIS does). So I was sort of interested in seeing if I could get a "pure" Debian installed. But since MEPIS is there, I can get information. What kind of information would be pertinent in this case? Thanks, Chuck ----------------------- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
