Keyboard problem in 8.10

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/11/19 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>:
> > I've mentioned this before but no one responded.
> >
> > I first put 8.10 on a lab computer to see what it was like.  I noticed
> > that the "left arrow" key did not work when in KDE4 although it did work
> > when I was in a true console session (out of X altogether)

>
> I had some problems with my keyboard and was testing things and ended
> up with no arrow keys. I think it was related to what driver you use
> for the keyboard both in xorg.conf and/or in KDE settings. I now use a
> default xorg.conf (no driver for the keybooard) and in system settings
> evdev managed. All normal keys work and most of the multimedia keys.
>
> / Jonas

My xorg.conf is the same...  no mention of the keyboard.   And the left arrow 
key also worked on the 'keyboard test' during the install.    Strange.