breezy keyboard woes

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:46 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me what I can try to do to get my keyboard working under X?
> 
> It works fine on the console so I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and 
> re-sensed everything including keyboard & mouse.
> 
> The symptom I get is that I cannot type my user name at the login splash 
> screen, nor can I get to a console (cntl-alt-f1) - but I can turn the 
> numslock & capslock lights on & off, so the keyboard is responding.
> 
> The mouse is active so I can reboot & intercept grub & load a recovery 
> system.
> 
> Any pointers welcome.
> 
> TIA,
> Zoltan

Is the keyboard unusual in any way?
If you are using USB, maybe use an adapter and connect via ps2 port.

I can't say I've seen this issue in 10 years of using Linux.

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Kevin C. Smith

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