On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:32:59PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 12-May-07 10:13:25, Chris G wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:53:54AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
I just installed Slackware 11 on an old[ish] PC and it all went totally smoothly with no problems at all.
However when I boot the installation it does all the right things and presents me with a login: prompt but at that point the keyboard doesn't work so I'm a bit stumped.
The keyboard works at the boot: prompt but it would seem that I've somehow got the wrong drivers in the installed system.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
One thing that it *might* be is that it's an old style keyboard with the large DIN plug, maybe this needs a different driver from the default, can I get somewhere from the boot: prompt to fix this?
Not what I thought it was, it's a gpm (console mouse driver) problem. I booted from CD and disabled gpm (made /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm not executable) and now my system starts up with a working keyboard.
Interesting! That suggests the keyboard may be sharing an interrupt (or address space) with the mouse port (serial?). You could maybe check this in the BIOS (or from the scrolling boot messages).
Or, if both mouse and keyboard work OK in X, maybe the configuration of gpm may cause this kind of treading on toes. Have a look inside /etc/rc.d/rc/gpm -- or, more generally, do a 'locate gpm' and try to track through the slew of config files which may result from this!
It all works together OK in X. From what I could gather from Google searching it's something to do with the gpm configuration as you suggest.