I have 2 servers connected to 1 monitor and 1 keyboard. Both servers where running on openSUSE 11.3. Everything worked fine until i upgraded 1 server to openSUSE 11.4.
Now my keyboard doesn’t work anymore. When I boot-up I can hit enter to boot into desktop but after SUSE begins to load, the keyboard doesn’t work anymore.
A usb-keyboard works fine and the hardware list shows the keyboard.
What have caused this problem ? anybody experienced the same problem ?
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keytable.conf
Section “InputClass”
Identifier “LocalKeyboard”
MatchIsKeyboard “on”
Option “XkbLayout” “be”
Option “XkbOptions” “caps:capslock”
EndSection
Normally I blame the BIOS if the keyboard does not work in Grub menu and I blame the kernel if it does not work in openSUSE. If I find swiching the keyboard out from PS/2 to USB and it works, I just keep using the USB keyboard I suppose. If you have a PS/2 KVM switch, it might even be time to get a USB based model. Be that as it may, I would try a new kernel such as 2.6.39 from Kernel/Head. You can get it from this repository:
Index of /repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.4/x86_64
Second, I would enable the ability to maintain multiple kernels using this example:
edit the file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf to say:
##
## Packages which can be installed in different versions at the same time.
##
## Packages are selected either by name, or by provides. In the later case
## the string must start with "provides:" immediately followed by the capability.
##
## Example:
## kernel - just packages whith name 'kernel'
## provides:multiversion(kernel) - all packages providing 'multiversion(kernel)'
## (kenel and kmp packages should do this)
## Valid values:
## Comma separated list of packages.
##
## Default value:
## empty
##
# multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
**multiversion = kernel-desktop**
If you use KDE, you can use the menu Run Command:
kdesu kwrite /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
The file zypp.conf has a whole lot more in it than the small portion shown above. You are adding only the line shown in bold (and it will not be in bold in your file after being added). So be careful not to mess anything else up.
If you would prefer to compile your own kernel, I have a script file that can do that. You can download kernel 2.6.39 from here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.39.tar.bz2
My bash script is located here in message #62:
S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.00 - Page 7
The sakc script leaves your default kernel unchanged and you have the option to go through the kernel settings to see if something you your keyboard there might even be helpful.
Thank You,