Keyboard operates on WindowsXP, but when back into Suse 11.1 it will not work. Tried to Repair, but didn’t fix the issue. The lights are lit, but buttons don’t give result. I don’t know where to turn now. Any takers?
What keyboard is this?
Make?
Model?
USB or PS/2?
Wireless?
If its a USB keyboard, try going into your BIOS and under USB change the setting to legacy mode.
It is a Dell SK-8115 USB keyboard. I did not find a legacy mode for the usb or for the usb controller. It is either on/off/no boot.
Funny, when the Suse 11.1 login page appears, I can enter my characters and then hit the enter, everything loads, then when I open an editor, OpenOffice doc, or anything else that needs the keyboard, it will not accept commands.
Since text mode works, this appears to be a problem with X window. You could try booting to run level 3, and then run YaST with root permissions, and try to configure your keyboard from YaST.
To boot to run level 3, enter “3” (no quotes) into the options line of the grub boot menu (thats the 1st selection menu that appears when booting your pc). You can enter ‘3’ into that line by just pressing 3. Then it will boot to an ascii/text login. Log in as a regular user. Then once logged in, type ‘su’ (no quotes - enter root password) and then navigate to select an appropriate keyboard.
Exit sax2.
Then reboot with: shutdown -r now
Well oldcpu, Sax2 didn’t work. Anymore ideas to fix? I am all out of ideas and I sure don’t want to have to wipe my partition and reload…
When in run level 3, there is also a keyboard entry under yast. Try running yast from run level 3 and see if you can configure from there.
Did you try a different USB port?
Well the problem with the non-functional keyboard is now resolved. I found out under root, that I had keyboard function, but my normal user did not, which led me to the assumption that my user profile was screwed somehow. Deleted the user and created another for my self, but it, the keyboard worked. Lost some files but I guess that is the price of corruption. At least I have copied most of the stuff I wanted to keep to USB stick. Thanks for all the help in resolving the issue.
Thats a “new” cause for me. I had not thought to check that. Well done in sorting the problem.