Password

[Mark Pubols]

Hello,

Yes, it was the keyboard of all things, in desperation I changed from the
Apple ADB keyboard to another one with a very nice anatomic arrangement and
the password I had entered in the installation worked just fine. I had done
everything with checking caps lock etc and nothing worked. However, I did
try to install two user accounts and only the one that used all lower case
letters made it into the final setup. Geert's "wild guess" was correct...I'm
going to try out the same keyboard on a 7600/132 and see if the same problem
arises. Just for reference, it's a Beige G3 desktop with a 266 MHz CPU and
the Rev B ROM and the problem keyboard was a model number M2980.

The operating system looks very nice and has some very handy features, I
will be working on getting hooked up to the internet and trying to network
it with my other machines. I'm going to install an HP Scanjet 4C on it today
sometime and see what shakes out when I use it, I anticipate good results
though. It does look like a very nice and practical operating system.

Thanks,

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geert Janssens" <geert.janssens3@pandora.be>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)


> First, check if your num lock is on when typing the password (if it
> contains numbers).
>
> Then, check if caps lock is not accidentally on.
>
> If that's still not working, here's a wild guess: this might be a
> keyboard layout issue.
> Maybe during the install, your keyboard layout is set to querty, while
> during normal boot, it gets configured as azerty, or the other way around.
>
> For testers, type your password as if you were on the other keyboard
layout.
>
>
> Hope any of these help.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Geert Janssens
>
> Mark Pubols wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > new to the YDL and in fact this is my first Linux OS installed. I've put
> > it on a Beige G3 DT and have gone with a desktop install. Everything has
> > apparently gone on the computer just fine except I can't really be sure
> > since I can't make it past the password entry. I've installed this thing
> > 4 times now and each time I've tweaked the password a little bit and
> > every time I can't get past the password at all.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Mark
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