Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jontheid]

This is a total mystery to me!
I'm running Lucid Puppy with xfce4 and wbar, a combination I really like btw.
Everything is going fine except for some intermittent probs with the sound card.
Now when I boot up, the keyboard doesn't work in X at all. It had been working fine. Nownothing, not even in a console. However if x hasn't been started, I can still type 'xwin' to make it go, and then x starts, but no keyboard input. I have tried rerunning xorg setup and it has made no difference.
Many thanks for any help
Jonathan

ps I seem to have to two gettys running in task manager, don't know if this is relevant

[Dewbie]

Do you have another keyboard that you could try?
(Check the connections on the current one first.)

[jontheid]

The keyboard works fine in XP (it is dual boot machine, I'm using the keyboard here), it is a Toshiba laptop. Key board also works fine in Puppy before x has started up, it just doesn't work when x is running.
Cheers
Jon

[Dewbie]

How do you have Puppy installed?
(examples: frugal, full, running from CD, etc.)

Perhaps you can try running in RAM only (puppy pfix=ram in boot menu) to see if the problem persists.