Bug 95008 – no keyboard input possible with livecd and with new installed and booted system

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Thomas Sachau 2005-06-04 05:35:11 UTC]

If i boot with the 2005.0-Live-CD i cannot do any keyboard input. So i booted
with knoppix and installed gentoo from console. After booting the new
installation i also cannot do any keyboard input.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot 2005.0-Live-CD or boot new gentoo-installation

Actual Results:  
i see no reaction for my keyboard input.

Expected Results:  
show and react on my keyboard input.

[Comment 1 Tom Wesley 2005-06-04 05:38:35 UTC]

What type of keyboard?  How is it connected?  What arch computer are you having
this problem on?  When does input stop? (BIOS, grub, login prompt, x11)

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 05:39:49 UTC]

Well, you provided zero hardware information, so you can

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 05:39:49 UTC]

Well, you provided zero hardware information, so you can´t expect that someone
will diagnose the problem.

Try "gentoo-nofb noapic acpi=off nosmp nolvm2" at boot prompt.

[Comment 4 Thomas Sachau 2005-06-04 05:52:41 UTC]

1. its a standard ps-2 keyboard
2. What arch computer = ?
3. i am not able to make any input after linux is loaded i am able to do some
input at the boot prompt from live-CD
4. sorry for the problems...but i am not familiar with bug reports and my native
language isnt english

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 05:57:51 UTC]

Sorry, PS2 keyboard is simply not enough hardware information. Did you try my
suggestion in Comment #2?

[Comment 6 Thomas Sachau 2005-06-04 06:47:12 UTC]

gentoo acpi=off solves this problem, why is only the option acpi=on in the
bootmanager?

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 07:01:32 UTC]

Good, closing then.