6.1RC2 regression and a BIG question.

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Denis R Michailov wrote:

>We bought HP Proliant DL 320 G4.[...]
>  
>
>But 6.0i386 &&
>6.0amd64 was installed successfully but server hang up on loggin in
>(when i see a login message I cannot type anything my keyboard doesn`t
>respond at all (except Num, Scroll and Caps Lock)) but I see that if I
>push the power button I get a lot of messages shutting down the system
>(as if I typed CTRL+ALT+DEL) acpi is surelly on. Safe Mode and so on
>didn help except single user mode. 
>
Disclaimer: no experience of HP Proliant, but no-one else is saying 
anything...

If this were a Dell, I'd say that a virtual USB keyboard was taking over 
from the keyboard you were using.  (Cap, Num, Scroll lock are all sort 
of hardwired into the keyboard so the OS could easily have no effect on 
them appearing to work).

Have a look through /var/run/dmesg.boot and see if there looks to be 
more than one keyboard recognised.  If so, then check out the man page 
for kbdcontrol and try (from an ssh session) redirecting the system 
keyboard.  If that works you can try doing that automatically through 
devfs.  There have been threads on this which google/pipermail should 
find for you.  You could post any relevant extracts from dmesg.boot 
here, if you have trouble figuring out if you do have more than one 
keyboard device.  You could also mention what kind of keyboard you have 
(PS/2/USB) since that may be relevant.

Since this is 6.X, you could also try compiling a kernel with kbdmux 
device which allows multiple keyboards to work, but I've never tried that.

Can't promise that this is it, but the symptoms suggest it might be.

--Alex