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Author: anonymous
Date: Thu Jan 26 20:40:02 2006
Subject: wacky keyboard
Hello
My keyboard has suddenly decided to wack out; any keyboard I try does the same thing. I can use it in maintenance mode, but after a normal boot and login it returns strange characters. Any ideas?
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Thu Jan 26 22:31:22 2006 TonyLawrence
Would you like to give us a clue as to what operarting system you might
be running and and example of what happens when you type something?
If this is SCO, you've might have a munged ioctl.syscon file. Usually that
mungs single user mode too, but you might have a different kind of damage.
Go into single- user mode by typing the root password followed by ^J instead
of a carriage return. Use stty sane^J to restore your console to more normal
operation. Remove /etc/ioctl.syscon, and reboot by running /etc/reboot.
The system will complain that /etc/ioctl.syscon is missing and will rebuild
it for you.
The usual cause for this file becoming corrupt was that the system was
shut down from a terminal other than the console, and this file now contains
the stty settings for that terminal (which are probably not correct for
the console).
Try that. If that's not it, take a look at /etc/gettydefs - is it OK?
Fri Jan 27 16:32:44 2006 TonyLawrence
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Sat Jan 28 08:14:22 2006 anonymous
Does all text on the screen look bad or just text you type?
ie: is the login prompt legible?
As it's booting up does text look normal at first and then turn bad at
some point?
If it's only text you type, are all characters wrong or only some?
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