Keyboard freezes on Live CD [SOLVED]

Tamerz · Last edited by Tamerz on Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have a new PC here (HP dc7600) that I am having some problems with. I have Fedora on there now and want Gentoo on the second drive. Fedora works fine, but when I boot to the Gentoo LiveCD to start the install, the keyboard stops working. The mouse cursor still moves. I have already tried a different keyboard with the same results.

Triptol · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 107

Do you have a USB keyboard? If yes, did you enable something like DOS emulation in the BIOS?

Tamerz · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:17 am Post subject:

I should have mentioned that. The keyboard is PS/2. The BIOS hasn't been touched.

Tamerz · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

Well I am now going thru a KVM and it no longer locks up.

UberPinguin · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

I also have a dc7600, which gives the same problem. Has anyone figured out why it worked with the KVM switch and not the straight PS/2 connection?

[edit] FWIW, Knoppix has the same problem on this machine. I can't get a decent error message, but it seems to be a problem with the 8205(?) keyboard controller. [/edit]
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Epimetheus · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

I had the same problem but solved it by using nousb options when picking kernel.