Sudden keyboard problems after upgrade from RH9 to FC2

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:43, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> I just "upgraded" my Red Hat 9 installation which had been very stable
> for a long while to Fedora Core 2, and began to notice some problems
> utilizing my PS/2 keyboard. The symptoms of the problem are loss of
> keyboard functionality; meaning I can't type a single letter or even
> toggle the num or caps locks. The issue arises sometimes when I attempt
> to switch from one virtual terminal to another (say from X windows to a
> command line via control-alt-F1), and almost always when I press the num
> lock key (to turn on the number lock on the numeric keypad) at any point
> during boot or running of FC2. I did not experience these problems under
> RH9 and the other operating systems (BeOS, OpenBSD, Win2k) I run on this
> system aren't affected similarly.
> 
> I struggled through most of the day to get the installation of Fedora up
> to date (struggling first with up2date/up2date-nox and then resorting to
> downloading the rpm's listed by up2date and installing them via rpm) but
> the problem seems to have remained. When I first started FC2 after
> installation I got an error message in X that suggested filing a bug
> report with the results of what I believe "groff" with XKB if I remember
> correctly. But it didn't present any answers to what was going wrong and
> the symptoms I have are present even in Run Level 2, so I disregarded it
> and no longer get the error message.
> 
> Anyone else have similar problems and/or (better yet) have a solution
> other than avoiding the num lock?

By the overwhelming lack of response to this message, I take it this has
been a unique experience... Does anyone have any possible solutions for
it?

Raymond
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Raymond C. Rodgers <rh at bbnk.dhs.org>