Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:08:05
Message-Id: 4B09BB3A.1030708@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde) by Zeerak Waseem
1 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
2 > Hey,
3 >
4 > I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes
5 > me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my
6 > password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i
7 > change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues
8 > (also starting x as user from tty doesn't do anything about the
9 > keyboard not working).
10 >
11 > These are the packages the update pulled in:
12 >
13 > x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2
14 > 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3
15 > app-admin/eselect-1.2.8
16 > www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742
17 >
18 > I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem
19 > to change anything.
20 >
21 > I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test.
22 > What does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it
23 > should.
24 >
25 > Help?
26 >
27 > -------------------------------------------
28 > Zeerak
29 >
30 > Ps. I sent a mail out, however I'm not certain if i did it correctly,
31 > hence this mail.
32 >
33 >
34
35 It made it to the list.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)