FW: [plug] Keyboard locks up

[Buddrige, David]

Hi all,

I got it working!  I did this, by adding the line:

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

to the top of the 

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard 

file, and then running init 1, followed by init 3.

Previously the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file only had the line:

KEYTABLE="us"

I therefore edited this file so that it read:

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="us"

And then ran init 1, followed by init 3 and it worked.

I think the reason that this worked, is that when I was updating this file,
to add KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" to it before, I was straight away running init 3.
However, I suspect that the synch command might not have been running in
run-level 1, and so when I updated the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file, it was
not being written to disk, hence the added line was lost, and hence it hung
up again.

thanks 


David Buddrige. 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buddrige, David [mailto:BuddrigeD at logica.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:40 AM
> To: 'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
> Subject: FW: [plug] Keyboard locks up
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > 
> > run kbdconfig
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, this did not help.  As soon as I booted into 
> run-level 3, the
> keyboard locked up again.  I was forced to power-off the 
> machine and restart
> it, however I now seem to have the problem that the / 
> filesystem seems to be
> read-only.  Although I am logged on as root (in single-user 
> mode), I am not
> able to update any config files.   It seems to be complaining 
> of having a
> read-only filesystem.
> 
> thanks heaps
> 
> David.
> 
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