How to get keyboard back?
I just glitched something on my Arch box that is probably easy to fix. Hoping y'all can help.
I was getting the "can't load module shpchp. Missing kernel or user mode driver shpchp" error that I've seen others here post about. To get rid of it, I (probably making a mistake) commented out (with a !) the loading of the hotplug module in rc.conf.
After I rebooted, I lost my keyboard. Well, it's still here in front of me; it's just not accepting input. I have rc.conf set to load kdm as the last daemon, and when it boots into kdm I can't enter any characters in for my password.
Is there a simple fix for this? Some sort of way to override the !hotplug in rc.conf when I boot up?
Thanks,
Mark
ouch that's a top one! how to fix stuff in a text file without a keyboard. quite honestly I don't think that's possible so your best bet is to a) get a ps2 keyboard or b) get a live cd, boot into it, mount your arch partition into a folder, edit your rc.conf
as for the live cd's I am sure knoppix or some derivat of it will work, I am not sure if the arch installation disk works just b/c I don't know if .. actually I don't see a reason why the arch install cd shouldn't work. so try that one
simple outline
* boot the live cd
* create a folder in f.e. /mnt/ ( or wherever it's the folder that counts not where it is )
* mount /dev/discs/discY/partX ( X for whatever partition it's on; Y for first or second harddisk ( 1 for primary hard drive, 2 for second etc... )
* go into your folder where arch is mounted
* go into the /etc folder and edit rc.conf
I really hope this works for you : ) but maybe you just have a second computer with another keyboard and all my typing above is useless *g*
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