On 7 January 2012 16:27, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@wlandres.net wrote:
Greetings All! I have a somewhat mysterious hardward problem. On a tower box with external keyboard connected via a PS/2 connector, with external monitor,
Is the keyboard native PS/2, or going through an adapter from USB or from IBM/AT?
A: During the BIOS phase of boot, if I enter the BIOS setup, I can use the keyboard to navigate round the BIOS menus, so the basic hardware handles keyboard input (and monitor output) fine.
So that hardware can't be too broken.
However, if I connect to the machine from another one over the network, I can log in fine.
sshd is running fine.
If I then give the command echo "Hello" > /dev/tty0 I see "Hello" output on the monitor.
So it doesn't look like a monitor problem, and therefore is most probably a failure to see the keyboard from Linux.
Yes.
The Linux system is a SuSE 7.2 (from 2001). This problem is recent -- a few days ago it wasn't happening. Now it is.
Wow, I hope this system isn't on the Internet, or do SuSE still provide security updates?
Any suggestions?
Have you tried another keyboard? USB? Booting another OS or recovery CD?
Good luck, Tim.