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Something went wrong and my keyboard suddenly stopped working in KDE. I managed to get the laptop rebooted, and I am now unable to use the keyboard in X at all. All keys are mapped to switch resolution, so that I can't interact with any applications or kill the X server. I've tried removing the xorg.conf file without results, as well as reinstalling xkeyboard-config and xorg-xkb-utils, hoping that some keymap file had just been corrupted. It's not a hardware, problem, as the keyboard works correctly in the console, and another keyboard has the same problem in X. The keyboard doesn't seem to be set up with any unusual mappings, X gets settings for it from hal and uses model evdev, rules evdev, layout us. The xorg log with -logverbose 255 is at http://pastebin.ca/1513216
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Have you tried to put the keyboard in xorg.conf and disabling AutoAddDevices?
Last edited by miau (2009-07-31 09:03:34)
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Yes, I tried doing that with both the evdev and kbd drivers, with the same results - any keypress changes video modes, and is not seen by applications. I've also now reinstalled all packages, which still hasn't changed anything. I'll try a livecd later just to make sure that it's really software, and then I'll probably delete+reinstall if nobody can figure this out, because I'm not able to find anything on the web about a problem like this, and there doesn't appear to be anything helpful in the log.
Last edited by Unhelpful (2009-07-31 09:07:46)
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Could you post the xorg.conf you have used?
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xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "i2c"
Load "ddc"
Load "vbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
# Driver "evdev"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
VertRefresh 43 - 61
HorizSync 28 - 80
UseModes "modes"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "UseEvents" "True"
Option "HorizSync" "CRT-0: 31.4-67.6"
Option "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 59.9-75.1"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling=aspect-scaled"
Option "ModeValidation" "DFP-0: NoHorizSyncCheck, NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoVertRefreshCheck, NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 @1680x1050 +0+0, CRT-0: NULL; DFP-0: 1360x768 @1360x768 +0+0, CRT-0: 1360x768 @1360x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050 @1680x1050 +0+0, CRT-0: 1360x768 @1680x1050 +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050 @1920x1050 +0+0, CRT-0: 1920x1080 +0+0"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "True"
Option "TwinView"
Option "DPI" "115x115"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "modes"
ModeLine "1360x768" 85.48 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 778 795 -HSync -VSync
Modeline "1920x1080" 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +HSync -VSync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "Nvidia0"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Main Layout"
InputDevice "keyboard"
Screen 0 "Screen 0"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSectionDisabling DynamicTwinview stops the vidmode cycling, but I suspect that's simply because the server only knows one mode. Applications still fail to receive any text input.
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Have you tried to add the Option Xkblayout "us" to your keyboard section?
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Yes, that produces no change, and even when it was using hal to set up the keyboard it was using the us layout.
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