R. L. Carroll wrote:
> Alan-
> I too am getting excessive NAKS though the keyboard seems
> to work fine in Windows. I changed to a plain jane
> keyboard, also from Microsoft, and got the same problem. I
> am using a 3 month old Dell XPS B1000 1 GHz machine, though
> I stole the plain jane from a brand new 1.4GHz Dell
> machine.
>
>
> I have a probably related question. When I installed
> Mandrake 7.2 I saw the NAK messages. Eventually the
> system got to the point where it asks for the name and
> password of the root user. I could not type in
> anything--no repsonse to the keyboard. So I clicked " no
> password" and
> proceeded--apparently leaving root as the user with no
> password. When the installation finished I was able to
> type at will. I would also like to be able to correct the
> "root" problem. Is there a way at this point to do so? I
> did a renistall by the way that went the same way and left
> me in the same state.
>
> Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS--
>
> I lofet phone messsages and email on other probelms last
> MOnday and never heard back from your support folks.
Bob....yep, mine worked fine in Windows as well. The
keyboard I switched to however was a non-microsoft keyboard
and it is still working flawlessly. I suppose that the 586
optimizations in the mdk code are having a problem with that
keyboard just like they have with some hard drives.
--
Alan
