Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-13T03:45:33Z

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:19 pm, Roey Katz wrote:
> Dmitry,
>
> I have placed the results of the patched 2.6.9-rc2-bk2 kernel at the
> following address:
>
> http://roey.freeshell.org/mystuff/kernel/*-20050112
>
> As expected, the system was unresponsive to keyboard input.

And what if you do not compile PS/2 mouse support in? Is keyboard still
dead?

> Regarding your mouse question:
> How do I test the mouse if they keyboard does not work (is there some
> way to output the contents of /dev/psaux on startup? I'm not sure anymore
> what file the mouse data appears in, too)
>

Install GPM and try moving your mouse after booting into runlevel 3 -
if cursor moves mouse works.

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Dmitry