dead keyboard

[Michael]

This reminds me:

About haf the times I start my computer my keyboard and mouse won't work. The 
only thing I can do is hit the power button. Any ideas what the problem might 
be?

On Saturday 20 May 2006 16:24, Alan Gore wrote:
> Thanks for the help last week on my problem with getting remote VNC
> access to a new SUSE installation. I found that my problem was an
> overenthusiastic SUSE firewall. Although I checked the firewall port
> open options when I opted in YaST for enabling the VNC ("Remote KDE
> desktop") server. There must be a bug that is causing the wrong port
> to be opened for VNC. I should be able to go into YaST firewall
> configuration and manually open port 5900.
>
> But I've hot a new problem: suddenly, KDE can't see m keyboard. It
> doesn't see any characters I enter, except that the Alt-F4
> combination, which used to close the current window, now pops me out
> to a kernel login. The keyboard works fine here, so I know it's not
> my hardware.
>
> Wiyjout a keyboard in KDE, I can't enter the root password needed to
> get into YaST to reconfigure the firewall. This prevents me from
> getting VNC  access back. Is there a way of disabling the firewall
> without a keyboard, or from he kernel login in which my keyboard stll
> works?
>
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