[newbie] mandrake 9.1 keyboard not working

[Lorne Steinke]

Well talked to brent he told me to reboot with the boot cds and well everthing is working again. 
simple solutions . still don't know what caused my keyboard to die but as you can see its  
working again. sorry for not being a little more diligent. thanks all      Lorne 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorne Steinke" <lornedrake@linuxmail.org> 
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:53:32 +0800 
To: "newbie mail" <newbie@vlug.org> 
Subject: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 keyboard not working 
 
> Hi all .   haven't posted for a while since my computer was down the last time( trying to dual boot,etc)  
> thanks again for all the help last time.   
>      well I have a new delema , my keyboard doesn't work at all even after rebooting. seemed to happen   
> after I tryed to get my sound card driver working(in linux). nothing at all seems to work on the keyboard so I   
> can't even log in as root. the mouse works but if I can't even log in as root what can you do?  
>      by the way as you can tell by this email my keyboard works on my old computer, I'm dual booted   
> with xp but I can't even boot xp from the lilo because the up and down arrows on the keyboard don't work.  
> (not that you all want me to boot xp ha ha) I would greatly appreciate some insight . my google searches  
> have been very sparce the only thing that seems to come up is something about the key board being stuck in   
> raw mode from improperly exiting some terminal program or something, I was in root trying to get my sound  
> card driver to work (I think) I'm really not sure what I did to cause this, but being a newbie who knows eh.  
> the limited solutions I found googleing are way over my head (loging in from anouther terminal or machine or  
> something) If some kind soul thinks they can help me I'd be greatly appreciative.   thanks again in advance  
>      Lorne Steinke    lornedrake@linuxmail.org  
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