Keyboard freezes at boot

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:45:09PM +0200, Marek Scharf wrote:

> trying to install ubuntu AMD64..
> But as soon as the screen appears to select language,
> keyboard freezes and there is no toher way to continue
> only to power off pc.
> Also tried some boot parameters like noapic acpi=off etc..   no go.
> 
> Got a VIA KT800 Board, AMD64
> 
> any ideas?

If noapic and acpi=off don't work, it's possible that your USB controller
isn't being detected.  The latest daily CDs have additional code to deal
with this much better, so if you weren't already using a recent daily CD,
try that.

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 - mdz