On Nov 24, 2007 8:40 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
I have an ACER laptop with a patched FC4, and wanted to test before
going to FC8. Booting the live CD (GNOME) I got through the grub menu
just fine, mouse and keyboard working, and through the graphical boot,
and both the mouse and keyboard could be used...
But as soon a the desktop came up, the mouse touchpad worked, but the
keyboard and the buttons didn't.
Since this works fine on FC4 and all through the startup, I consider
hardware issues unlikely at best, at least broken hardware, I can
believe that X is so confused that it's not working, but the live CD
leaves no log I can examine after the fact.
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Hi Bill Davidsen,
I guess if I were you I would:
1. Google my Brand and Model number in connection with Linux and
Keyboard and Mouse. I Googled your Brand and the rest minus the model
number and found lots of interesting issues with Acer KVM in a wide
variety of OSs. I am not sure what to make of it.
2. Perhaps you have already tried this but you can obtain a root
terminal by holding down Control and Alternate (ctl + alt) and tapping
any of F1 thru F6 (you can return to X with a ctl + alt + F7). I have
read that on some Acer machines the above mentioned key combinations
are mapped to send Function + F? rather than ctl + alt + F?. This can
apparently be overcome by tapping the F? key twice fairly rapidly.
3. Try an external keyboard and/or mouse.
4. Try some boot options (check out F1 at the first Live CD setup screen).
5. Check out the CMOS setup for any options which may relate.
Good Hunting!
Tod