There is also typically a BIOS option for "Press F1 to continue on error" Something like that. Disable that function, so that its not sitting there waiting for you to hilariously press F1 (on the non-existant keybaord) to ack the error that there is no keyboard. That's what I've always done on any headless servers.
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I got rid of similar problems as you have leaded.
I made below changes on ubuntu and it works when keyboard is not plugged or when ubuntu is not become alive after electricity interruptions:
I recently tried to install Linux 7.2 on my home PC (Compaq), and it did not recognise my keyboard. I could not proceed with the installation as I could not type anything. I installed 6.2 and it worked fine???????????. I was wondering if anybody has encountered this problem (very frustrating).
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When I created the redhat installation, I configured it to boot directly into GNOME, but now I want it to boot into the shell login screen. How can I change that?
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Ok, so I'm a bit new to the whole Unix/Linux thing, but I'm no stranger to dual booting...
However, the problem that I am having is that I am unable to create a dual boot with Unix (in this case I's using Sun Solaris 9.0 x86) and for linux either RH 9 or Mandrake 9.1, but for the purpose of just... (1 Reply)
I got Puppy linux and installed it on a usb stick.
In the BIOS i selected to boot from USB-FDD but it goes to my HD and ignores the USB stick,
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i have some problem in linux booting
will u please help me
the problem is
i was using federo core 1 on my system
everything was fine
i made one entry in /etc/fstab file for accessing E
drive of WINDOWS XP
in that i had given file system as VFAT after
rebooting system it
was not... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have Fedora linux with XFCE desktop. I want to use Indic lanquage in that. I have installed unicode devnagri fonts. But I am not able to change my default keyboard layout. How can I change default keyboard layout in XFCE or through command line.
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NeeleshG (0 Replies)
Hi all,
We are using linux Redhat 9.
While booting the server, it says /proc not mounted and it says "Segmentation fault" and doesn't continue with booting.
Basically, it started while we inserted a pen drive and removed it without mounting and un mounting it. After removing the pen drive &... (1 Reply)
Hello, we have a problem with our system, a machine with a RAID5:
- We can boot the system from CD only, if we try to boot from hard-disk the GRUB seems to be "freezed". What is the difference, why we can boot from CD if something is wrong?
- Allways we retreive an error like: "raid array is... (6 Replies)
Here is my question, a few years back I was sitting in an airplane and saw the movie display for all the passengers in the back of all the seats boot up. You could see the all too familiar boot-up-scrolling text that we are all used to with Linux. But probably only a few other folks on the plane... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
xkbgetgeometry
XkbGetGeometry(3) XKB FUNCTIONS XkbGetGeometry(3)NAME
XkbGetGeometry - Loads a keyboard geometry if you already have the keyboard description
SYNOPSIS
Status XkbGetGeometry (Display *dpy, XkbDescPtr xkb);
ARGUMENTS
- dpy connection to the X server
- xkb keyboard description that contains the ID for the keyboard and into which the geometry should be loaded
DESCRIPTION
You can load a keyboard geometry as part of the keyboard description returned by XkbGetKeyboard. However, if a keyboard description has
been previously loaded, you can instead obtain the geometry by calling the XkbGetGeometry. In this case, the geometry returned is the one
associated with the keyboard whose device ID is contained in the keyboard description.
XkbGetGeometry can return BadValue, BadImplementation, BadName, BadAlloc, or BadLength errors or Success if it succeeds.
DIAGNOSTICS
BadAlloc Unable to allocate storage
BadImplementation
Invalid reply from server
BadLength The length of a request is shorter or longer than that required to minimally contain the arguments
BadName A font or color of the specified name does not exist
BadValue An argument is out of range
SEE ALSO XkbGetKeyboard(3)X Version 11 libX11 1.6.0 XkbGetGeometry(3)