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SamF

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 4

No keyboard outside of console after update.

Hey, I've just ran pacman -Syu and now I've got no keyboard input when trying to log in using KDM, I dropped to console log in and the keyboard is working fine, ran startx and there is no input there either, any ideas what has happened ?

u_chaf

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Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 1

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

You are in good company --- done the same and zilch keyboard when startx --- fine in console.

Did a reinstall and still no keyboard on startx

Last edited by u_chaf (2009-11-02 02:00:29)

steve_v

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Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 80

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

Same here.

steve_v

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Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 80

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

Found error :

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:                                                                                   
> Error:            No Symbols named "nodeadkeys" in the include file "us"                                                         
>                   Exiting                                                                                                        
>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"

Changing "nodeadkeys" to "basic" in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi fixes this issue for me.

shogoki

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Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 13

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

It seems now that the keyboard configuration is in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi file, as steve_v said. I had to figure it out by my own, should we report a bug? if yes, how do we do it?

imrehg

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 114

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Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

Found error :

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:                                                                                   
> Error:            No Symbols named "nodeadkeys" in the include file "us"                                                         
>                   Exiting                                                                                                        
>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"

Changing "nodeadkeys" to "basic" in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi fixes this issue for me.

I cannot type in X either, even if /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi already had "basic" in it... thus this cannot be the whole solution

whiteinge

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 5

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

I'm also having this problem with both my desktop and netbook. I've been locked out of both computers all week, so I had to bring a computer home from work for the weekend.

This is a really frustrating problem as I can't ferret out any error messages from system logs.

Following the advice from several recent and related-sounding threads (including this one), I have checked or tried the following:

* hal and dbus are both running fine
* I'm not using an xorg.conf file, just defaults
* Creating a minimal xorg.conf file to manually chose the evdev or kdb keyboard drivers has no effect
* Setting AllowEmptyInput to false has no effect.
* Creating a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi with nodeadkeys has no effect.
* Plugging in additional PS2 and USB keyboards has no effect

One of my cards is a radeon, the other an intel. I'm running a really minimal setup with XDM.

I'm totally stumped.

airstep

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 54

Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

same situation with me

Hazor

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From: Tennessee

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 15

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Re: No keyboard outside of console after update.

I came home from school yesterday to find I had no keyboard input. I figured it was the xorg-server update, but downgrading did nothing. I just haphazardly came across the bit in the Beginner's Guide wiki page about X requiring input drivers be explicitly installed now (..which doesn't explain why it still didn't work with the downgraded xorg-server, but meh). So, I had to install xf86-input-keyboard.

Now my only problem is that KDM isn't logging me in. Autologin fails, and logging in manually returns me to the login prompt after a moment of a blank screen. And when I start KDE with startkde, "KDE Daemon" and KNetworkManager both crash. The latter needn't be running, but the former seems to be taking my hotkeys with it.

Last edited by Hazor (2009-12-02 20:31:21)