In the GNOME menu use System Settings->Keyboard config and choose a
generic USB keyboard. I had the same problem...
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 00:09, Neil Bird wrote:
> I did a fresh install of Psyche on my brother's PC over the W/E
> (blatting his old 7.x).
>
> I hit what appears to be a common problem initially in that the CD
> install program wouldn't accept keypresses on the first menu ("install
> or media check"). I bit of fiddling and I managed to get that working
> fine by booting off the cd with 'linux noprobe nopcmcia askmedia'
> (mostly by selecting various options at rendom till it worked - note
> that noprobe and nopcmcia by themselves didn't help).
>
> This got me in and working.
>
>
> Now it's installed, though, X (gdm login) isn't responding to the
> keyboard (even <Ctrl-Alt-Delete>). The grub menu works fine, though.
> I've not had much of a chance to tinker yet, but what sort of thing
> should I be looking for? Should I re-run the/a X config. app. [and
> which one is recommended nowadays]?
>
> I'm guessing that if I boot up to init level 3 the keyboard will
> still work in the console, but I need to check that.
>
> Most of the USB-keyboard google matches I've found suggest that once
> I'm past the install problem, the USB keyboard will 'just work' - but it
> doesn't.
>
> Will booting with a PS/2 kbd plugged in and then again with the USB
> one be picked up by kudzu and re-jig the config. enough?
>
> --
> [neil@xxx ~]# rm -f .signature
> [neil@xxx ~]# ls -l .signature
> ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> [neil@xxx ~]# exit
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Michael Smith <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Custom87.net
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