My Redhat9 system (Why RH9? it's a local server and working-on-linux box that I've had for many years) suffered a loose HDD cable which resulted in serious damage to various filesystems, especially /usr.

I applied an upgrade-over-the-top from the original RH9 CDs, and most of the machine is working. httpd is missing a support library (libgd) for mod_php - I haven't even tried to address this yet.

More serious is the keyboard in the graphical login screen. It works fine (up to a point, see below) in text mode, but at the graphical login screen, typing any key flicks between screen resolutions instead of filling in the username field. The only key sequence that works as expected is Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

One limitation of the keyboard is that the machine shares a screen/keyboard/mouse with a Windows 2000 box via a two-port Belkin Omnicube. When switching back to Windows 2000, even from Linux text mode, the mouse (always) and keyboard (sometimes) misbehaves in Windows. It didn't do this before the disaster.

What have I missed? X is XFree86 4.3.0.

The machine:

P3-500 (Katmai) on an Intel 440-BX chipset.
320MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000 16MB PCI Graphics
3.5 FDD
No sound card
Hard disks etc:
--- 440BX IDE
hda: 20GB Fujitsu
hdb: 13GB Maxtor
hdc: 52x CD-ROM drive
--- Highpoint HPT-366
hde: 3.2GB Quantum Fireball
Dynamode ISAPNP 56K modem
Netgear FA310TX (tulip) 10/100 Ethernet

Any hints on what might be causing this, how to fix it, what further information you might need, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

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SteveR

Hi steveread999,

it appears your X server doesn't know about you keyb. Check your /etc/X11/xfconfig.conf (pardon me if this isn't the real name because I'm working with Xorg for sometime now) to see what kind of keyb is configured. You can also check if you have a xfconfig.conf.rpmsave file this is an old configuration which you can re-use or extract the keyb configuration from it.

As for the misbehavior of the keyb/mouse on the data switch have you change the windows machine meanwhile? This also happens to me but in my case it depends on the windows machine I have connected to the switch, check the type and repeat rate on the bios of the two machine and make sure they equal.

You should update your system asap because as far as I understood your system is now working with a mixture of old and new libraries and executables.

Good luck, hope this helps

JdogPC