[ltp] T23 Keyboard failure with SuSE

[Kevin White]

Greetings,

I'm at the end of my tether trying to get SuSE working on my T23. I've 
bought and tried every SuSE from 7.0 to 8.1 and each has suffered the 
same fate.
They all install correctly, but suffer from random keyboard failures 
when booting. This occurs approximately 80% of the time, making it next 
to useless. However
on the occasions where it does boot correctly, it works fine until the 
next boot. SuSE boots all the way through to the graphical login, but 
the keyobard then fails
to respond when typing in the username or password, the mouse and other 
operations still work fine.

I've attempted to boot in text mode, but that suffers the same fate. 
I've unplugged all external devices, but thats made no difference. I've 
tried using the "safe mode", but that doesn't solve the problem either. 
SuSE support have given me numerous boot options to try, none of which 
have worked and their latest advice is that i should buy a new laptop!

The obvious answer would be a hardware problem of some sort. However 
Windows XP and Mandrake both work without problem, its a SuSE specific 
problem. Unfortunately my employers use SuSE, so i need to try and get 
it working on this laptop. Whats particularly galling is i picked this 
model solely because it had certified by Linux Care as working with SuSE 
since 7.1

The specifics are that its a standard T23, model 2647-AG0, has the 
latest BIOS and currently uses the boot options :

ide=nodma , apm=off , acpi=off , pci=acpi

Any pointers as to the problem and its cause would be most gratefully 
received.

Many thanks,

Kevin White
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