breezy keyboard woes
Zoltan Szecsei
zoltans at geograph.co.za
Wed Jan 4 06:38:47 UTC 2006
Johann Spies wrote:
> Hallo Zoltan,
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> I had a similar problem some weeks ago and got the following
> answer by Mikus Grinbergs that solved my problem:
>
> =======================
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:53:48 +0200 Johann Spies <js at wdsl.co.za> wrote:
>
>>After upgrading to Breezy on my Thinkpad R31 I cannot get to the
>>console using Alt-Ctrl-<F1-11> as I should be able to do. (I
>>use tty12 for X11 but it also happens when I try to use the more
>>usual tty7).
>>
>>I have determined that it is not a gdm issue. It also happens
>>when I start X11 with 'startx'.
>>
>>What went wrong?
>
>
> The problem was found by Nicola Bolla <nicola.bolla at erogasmet.it> :
>
> Pre Breezy, /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc was a directory.
> On Breezy, /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc needs to be a file.
>
>
> If you have a file on your system /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc.dpkg-new
> then (as root) :
>
> Rename directory /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc (to something else)
> Rename the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc.dpkg-new file
> to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
> (reboot)
>
> mikus
> ==========================
>
> Maybe that will help you.
>
> Regards
> Johann
Hi Johan,
Nope - it's already a file (pc) and there is no pc.dpkg-new.
The contents seem OK (but I wouldn't really know in detail).
Thanks anyway,
Zoltan
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