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On 12/10/06 12:56:45, David Bell wrote:
My newly completed AMD64 box has dual booting. However, I can onlyselect within the GRUB menu by using the up and down keys on the numeric pad. The PS2 keyboard is tried and trusted
Maybe, but this is presumably dual-boot with Windows and proprietary drivers (for things like extra keys) are often badly written - on the assumption that "any OS that is not genuine Windows must be pirated so we don't care". The net result is that the driver can remain active after a warm reboot (i.e. where you would use shutdown -r in GNU/Linux or Restart from Windows). This was a common problem with laptop trackpads.
Check whether this happens after a COLD restart, compared to a warm reboot. Ensure that when you reboot, the keyboard indicates a full reset (usually by turning off all lights and testing them all before setting the default).
Shutdown from Windows, leave the power off for at least a count of 10. Start up and check. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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