<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Manuel!<div><br>I think you're right, there's something funky happening with my system and ELRepo must have triggered it.</div><div><br></div><div>And I must have misunderstood the post I read about the vault repos.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Or should I just reinstall CentOS — and then steer far far
clear of ELRepo for the rest of my days?</blockquote>
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<p>Or you could start fresh and try to reproduce. I am quite sure
that unless the drivers hit some odd BIOS bug ( which is not
impossible -- you really do not want to get me started on the
various BIOS bugs I met over time ) , what you see as explanation
for what happened is not actually correct</p>
<p></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you're spot on here. I'm going to reinstall and try to reproduce the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>I hadn't even thought of that.</div><div><br></div><div>If I can't reproduce the problem then I can chalk it up to "Computers act weird sometimes."</div><div><br></div><div>Re-installing now, I'll let everyone know how it turns out.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br>— Jeremy</div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">P.S. Get some rest, it's late!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:01 PM Manuel Wolfshant <<a href="mailto:wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro">wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sorry, I pressed send before correcting the text and there are plenty of <br>
typos inside. Probably I should stop debugging my xen issues and mailing <br>
in the same time at 2:40 AM<br>
Anyway, please see below a few corrections ...<br>
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On 6/24/20 2:44 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:<br>
>> I just read on an old post that it can take quite some time before <br>
>> old kernels get moved to the vault repo, so this is probably another <br>
>> dead end.<br>
><br>
> Whatever post you read is either wrong or you misinterpreted what it <br>
> said. The content is in vault , you can easily verify by going <br>
> tohttp://<a href="http://vault.centos.org/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">vault.centos.org/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/</a> . There <br>
> never was a distinction between kernel packages and the other <br>
> packages. All the content it relocated as a whole.<br>
><br>
> And, with my had<br>
><br>
No idea what a "had" is. I meant "hat".<br>
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> of member of the centos qa team on, I can tell you this: the content <br>
> on the mirrors is/was NEVER removed prior to being copied to the vault <br>
> so you would find the required content either in the original place <br>
> (i.e. on the mirrors ) or in the vault. They even do overlap for a <br>
> short period of time, existing in both places in the same time.<br>
><br>
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>><br>
>> But this was 100% caused by the ELRepo packages. Literally nothing <br>
>> else changed from when the keyboard worked to when it didn't. I <br>
>> powered the machine on, I installed the ELRepo packages, I rebooted <br>
>> and now the keyboard doesn't work. There weren't any other changes <br>
>> made. Nothing.<br>
><br>
> Except for the fact that the elrepo packages you have installed do not <br>
> touch the keyboard settings. Basically they just place the driver <br>
> files provided by NVidia in the apropriate kernel directories and <br>
> respectively in X's directories, instruct the system to use them and <br>
> that's pretty much all.<br>
><br>
> And certainly they should not have any effect post install.<br>
><br>
read as : post UNinstall<br>
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