Keyboard hanging problem

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Dear Friends,

The keyboard is getting locked when linux boots and the system is not working.
If the Numlock is kept ON manually(not through BIOS,press Numlock when boots)during booting the keyboard is not getting locked and is working fine.
After it is locked if the system is made down from any terminal the kbd is becoming active and working fine(as soon as shutdown command is given).
H/W Config : P-III/450MHz/4.3GB HDD/40X CDROM/TDC4120/1.44MB FDD/PS-2 104KBD/RL100ATX (2.11D)/PCI Symbios Fast SCSI-2 Card/Trident 3D Image 9750 AGP VGA.
S/W : Linux Redhat 6.0 loaded from PC-Quest CD.

Pls. help me if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sanjiv Sharma

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Dear Friends,

Pls. help me.

Regards,
Sanjiv Sharma

[tony j. podrasky · Accepted solution]

I am experiencing a similar problem, but I
am also using a BETA driver for my graphics
card and was warned that this problem exists.

If I boot and come up in single-user mode
(which is default on my system) the
monitor is in terminal mode, all is fine.

I can then go thru init 3 to get the operating environment up. Then I log in
still in terminal mode, and then I do a
. This brings up the graphics
environment and everything is fine.

When I want to bring the system down, I
exit the X world and I return to terminal
emulation - and the keyboard is fine.

If I go into init 5 and let it grab the
console, I'm fine while I'm in the X
environment. When I try to go to init 1,
I lose access to the keyboard.

Anyway, You might try starting up the
X environment when you are already logged
in and seeing how it goes.

regards,
tonyp

[Francisco J. Soler]

If your are running XFree, see the Keyboard section in /etc/X11/XFree86.config and take a look to the line

ServerNumLock

I hope this helps.

Frank.

[Dieter Degrendele]

Hi,

First you have to detect where the problem is. I suggest that you logon from a terminal (telnet) and try to change your keyboard. Reboot and see what happens. If the problem is solved, you can try to download a patch from Redhat for your keyboard. If the problem is not solved, I would suggest that you download some keyboard tools (also from Redhat).

Hope it works,

Dieter Degrendele
Unix/Oracle Administrator