[Mageia-discuss] Keyboard gone after update from Mandriva

Thu Jan 12 17:50:00 CET 2012

On Thursday 12 Jan 2012 13:36 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire 
+Robinson who wrote:
+> > After updating from Mandriva 2010.1 to Mageia 1, I have this keyboard
+> > problem:
+> > The (USB) keyboard, which is recognized by the BIOS during boot-up, no
+> > longer does anything when I get to the Grub screen. (So I cannot boot in
+> > safe mode)
+> > After which the computer freezes  displaying "Mageia" and nine dark polka
+> > dots.
+> > No such problem when I try to boot with a PS2 keyboard; with USB keyboard
+> > booted perfectly under Mandriva.
+
+> Did you leave it a good while at that point? It can take a long time to 
+> rebuild kernel modules for a newer kernel.
+
+Couple hours (between 2 and 3)
+ 
+> I was going to say press escape to see the text boot process but you 
+> can't without a keyboard :\
+
+Exactly  ;-3)
+ 
+Cheers,
+ 
+Ron.
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