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scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

laptop out of comission

Howdy guys,

My laptop won't accept any keyboard input.  I read on another thread that this may be related to the kernel (2.6.22), but I don't know.  I blindly installed the ck kernel to see if it helped, but it didn't.  How can I fix this?  Gads, what a bad time for my laptop to be down!

thanks,

tom5760

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 283

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Re: laptop out of comission

If you really think it has something to do with the latest kernel, and somehow you can get some input into your laptop (external keyboard? ssh?)  you could downgrade the kernel package if you still have the old one in /var/cache/pacman/pkg.  Just do:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.21.6-1.pkg.tar.gz

or whatever.

Hope that helps.  Good luck!

scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 318

Re: laptop out of comission

Yep.  Nice, thanks.  I should have thought of that.  It's a good thing I haven't cleaned out my cache in a while.