AMD64-based Laptop ~ Keyboard Unresponsive in Installer

[Alan Santos]

To sort of hijack this thread, As Justin pointed out, a usb keyboard 
will work. But I'm interested to hear if anyone has installed an amd64 
(or whatever it's going to be called now) 2.6 kernel on this machine (or 
the 6805).

I'm unable to do so, for what looks like a similar reason:
booting with any of the 2.6 kernel rpms results in a message about an 
unkown key being pressed being printed over and over again, filling up 
the screen and apparently hanging everything else.
I don't have the exact message but it's from atkbd.c: and an unknown key 
bwgin depressed on /dev/somethingorother.
I only let it run for about 5 minutes in this state, so it may recover 
later. I don't think it's the 2.6 kernel in general since I run 2.6.3, 
although 32bit, on another partition.

thanks

Keith Tingle wrote:

> Hello I have recently acquired an eMachines M6807 laptop. Its a pretty
> spiffy Athlon64 3000+ Mobile-based notebook with ATI 9600 Mobility video. I
> am attempting to install Fedora x86_64 Core 1 Test on the system and have
> hit a small roadblock.
> The laptop's keyboard is not recognized by the installer. I am able to type
> parameters into the LILO boot: prompt, but once the installer fires up I get
> the following line a few times during initialization:
> pc_keyb: controller jammed (0x19)
> and after that the keyboard is unresponsive, as if its been turned off
> somehow.
> Any assistance with this issue would be much appreciated, I have tried
> several combinations of kernel options but without much luck or knowledge of
> what exactly I am attempting to do :|.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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