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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:51 AM

Hello,

I'm tryng to install Gentoo on my laptop, its an HP ze5000 Pavilion. When
it reaches the choose keyboard map section, the keyboard suddenly stops
responding. I've also tried a PS/2 keyboard that I hooked up to the back,
haven't tried a usb keyboard due to the lack of one. I was wondering if I
needed to load a specific kernal or pass a few parameters at the boot
screen. Has anybody else encountered this problem? I looked in the
newsgroup and bugtraq and didn't see anything that applied. Thanks! -Zenko

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:52 AM

Zenko B. Klapko Jr. wrote:

> Hello,

Hi,

> I'm tryng to install Gentoo on my laptop, its an HP ze5000 Pavilion. When
> it reaches the choose keyboard map section, the keyboard suddenly stops
> responding. I've also tried a PS/2 keyboard that I hooked up to the back,

just try another Linux bootcd, like Knoppix.

Regards
Georg Sauthoff

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:55 AM

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:42:24 -0400, Zenko B. Klapko Jr. wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:10:20 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
>
>> Zenko B. Klapko Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I'm tryng to install Gentoo on my laptop, its an HP ze5000 Pavilion. When
>>> it reaches the choose keyboard map section, the keyboard suddenly stops
>>> responding. I've also tried a PS/2 keyboard that I hooked up to the back,
>>
>> just try another Linux bootcd, like Knoppix.
>>
>> Regards
>> Georg Sauthoff
>
> Thanks for the reply! I'm not sure whether the group has any preference as
> to whether to top post or not, so I'll use the default of PAN. I've
> already tried Knoppix and its awesome. It does find the keyboard and one
> of the networking cards in my laptop. Even some of my non-techie friends
> tried it [liked the interface, gaim, etc.] So my only recourse is to
> choose another distro? And I was really psyched about installing gentoo!
> Is there anything that I could help with to fix the problem? Ok, I'll go
> find another

>
> Cheers,
> Zenko

Hello,

I would just like to post the following for any users who are having the
same problem. I have a HP ze5000 pavillion laptop. A few other models use
the same hardware as well, I found the tip on tuxmobile.org [mobilix.org]
of a user who would repeatedly type while the laptop was booting into the
install [you don't need to do that during regular boot-ups]. This gets the
kernel to notice the keyboard. After that step I found out that just
following the install docs was enough to get gentoo running. -Zenko

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