[KLUG Members] Keyboard and mouse problems after Upgrading to Suse 9.2

[Mark Bystry]

well, good robert. glad to hear you have fixed it. although i would still feel a little twitchy 
about it. maybe i'm just too anal about these things.

your fix has given me an education. i am glad you posted it. sorry i was no help but reading how you 
fixed the problem will help the rest of us if we get into that situation.

have a good one,

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.2 Pro


Robert V. Kanaley wrote the following on 1/12/2005 8:23 AM:
>>you know, with all of those little glitches going on, i'd get in far
> 
> enough to make some back ups
> 
>>and do a fresh (format) install of 9.2.
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Doing a backup of a partition on this machine is not a problem. This is an
> old Compaq that I use to learn at home. I have GRUB setup so that I can boot
> to other Linux distro partitions with no problems, and I have never had any
> problems booting from CD to Knoppix, BBC, Devil Linux, etc. No other distro
> has had the X keyboard problem, but this was my first Suse upgrade. My
> inclination was to blow away the partition and do a fresh install of Suse
> 9.2 Pro too, but last night I think I found the missing clue.
> 
> After booting to a screwed up X, I found a stdout message on tty1 that the
> service kbd had failed to start in run level 5.  Thus whenever I did a
> consol login to runlevel 3 on another tty the service kbd was run. This
> would temporarily “fix” the keyboard problem in X. Once I had a working X, I
> ran SAX2 and found that the keyboard that had been selected during the
> upgrade from Suse 9.1 Personal to Suse 9.2 Pro was a PC 102 keyboard not the
> actual Compaq Internet keyboard. I changed this in SAX2 and restarted the
> computer. No more keyboard problems and the mouse is behaving.
> 
> The only remaining problem with Suse 9.2 Pro is that when I select shutdown
> computer from the logout screen, after I reach run level 0, I have to hold
> the power button in for 5 seconds for the computer to power off. When I was
> running Suse 9.1 Personal I only had to press the button to power down.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert V. Kanaley
> Manager Information Systems
> Agdia, Inc.
> rvk at agdia.com
> http://www.agdia.com
> 
> 
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