[ale] keyboard works in bios/grub but not after boot?

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 22:50:13 EDT 2005


it is probably not your case. However, I experienced the same when I enabled
'redirect after boot' for 'redirect console to serial' on Dell PowerEdge
servers. Once I disable that, the kbd works just fine.

On 9/25/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>
> John Wells wrote:
> > H. A. Story said:
> >
> >>Sounds like a driver problem. Maybe, AT keyboards are not in the
> >>kernel anymore? LOL Seriously, Sounds like a hardware detection, got
> >>another Keyboard to try? Since, I know you can't do a dmesg.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions. Strangely enough, it has started working
> > again. I shutdown the machine, disconnected all external devices, power,
> > etc, let sit for five minutes, brought back up...same behavior. Removed
> > the existing kernel, installed another, brought it up, and keyboard
> worked
> > again.
> >
> > I have no idea.
>
> Swap the keyboard out for another. sounds like it could be a back cable
> or jack on the keyboard.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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