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Bug 88051

Summary: No keyboard input after livecd 2005.0 kernel boot on Acer Travelmate 2200
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: GUstavo Coelho Motta <gustavocmotta>
Component: EverythingAssignee: Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description GUstavo Coelho Motta 2005-04-05 09:50:58 UTC
I tried to install Gentoo on Acer Travelmate 2200 Laptop.
The Livecd reads fine... 
A chose gentoo kernel and ENTER.
Kernel load and everything looks normal, but I have no keyboard input after that.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert Gentoo Livecd 2005.0 on cd tray and boot
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I have no keyboard input and can't install Gentoo on Acer Travelmate 2200 Laptop.


Acer Travelmate 2200
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
512Mb RAM
Integrated Spanish keyboard
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-05 10:16:12 UTC
You have zero keyboard input, or just the keymaps are wrong?  Did you try pressing F2 to get the keymap selection?
Comment 2 GUstavo Coelho Motta 2005-04-05 10:37:28 UTC
I have zero keyboard input.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-05 10:51:18 UTC
What if you boot with "gentoo-nofb noapic acpi=off nosmp nolvm2"?
Comment 4 GUstavo Coelho Motta 2005-04-05 13:33:19 UTC
Great! That fixed the problem.
Thank you!