Re: Fedora 17: unable to login. Laptop keypad is locked
On 2/2/2013 8:36 AM, santosh wrote:
I am having dual boot Winxp / Fedora 17. In winxp everything is
working fine.
By mistake the "Shift key" was pressed for a long time, It displayed
to activate "sticky key". I clicked on "Activate" button blindly.
(As I was not aware of it)
At that time keyboard of my laptop was working fine.
When I rebooted the machine, Keypad is locked, unable to type
password, hence unable to login.to the system.
I have tried to boot through old kernels. Its booting properly then it
displays login prompt. At that point I am unable to
type password as keypad of my laptop is locked.
Please suggest what should I do ?
Sounds like the X server "slow
keys" was engaged.
holding the Shift key again for about 10 seconds should enable
the keyboard.