key board stuck

[Avanti Khardekar]

It was working fine in the text only mode.. only once inside the KDE it was
giving problems.

On 7/18/07, Macario Valle <macariov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 13:21 -0500, Greg Booth wrote:
> > > on restarting the system i am having a tough time
> > > typing in the kde (kubuntu). is there any key board settings or a way
> to
> > > solve this.
> > > i can easily type on the login screen and outside the kde.
> > >
> > > plz help.
> > > >
> > > > -avanti
> > > >
> >
> > Any chance we can get a little bit more detail ? What applications are
> > you having trouble typing into since KDE is the environment not the
> > applications? What does it do ? Do the letters not show up ? Do you
> > get gibberish ?  Have you tried attaching an external keyboard and try
> > typing with that since it's a laptop ? What version of Kubuntu are you
> > using ?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> Try login in on text only mode.  If the problem still persists, there
> might be something wrong hardware related.  It could be anything from
> the connector to some part on the keyboard.
>
> The driver is xserver-xorg-input-kbd, i would go ahead and force a
> reinstall, that way any damaged file will be replaced.
> I would also run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and accept all
> default parameters so that any damaged config file gets rewritten.
> The go back to X gui.
>
> If it is hardware, then either have it repaired of use an external one.
> If there is no connector for an external ps2 keboard, as in my old cheap
> laptop, you can always use a usb one.
> Now i know I have not written a step by step procedure but I trust you
> can find out the right commands in this group or just google for
> knowledge.
>
> Macario valle
>
>
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