Need help: Lost keyboard after xorg upgrade

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 02:24:23AM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> Hi have you a package system-setup-keyboard ? 
> system-setup-keyboard is a daemon that monitors /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
> and writes out an xorg.conf.d snippet based on  this file’s contents
> 
> first you should have /etc/sysconfig/keyboard with something like: 
> KEYTABLE="pt-latin1"
> MODEL="pc105"
> LAYOUT="pt"
> KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

system-setup-keyboard is fedora-specific. the debian equivalent is in
/etc/defaults/keyboard.

Cheers,
  Peter

> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 00:52 +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 09:43 +0200, Michael wrote: 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I use Debian SID on two laptops here. One works without any problem. The 
> > > other has lost the keyboard in X after last dist-upgrade.
> > > 
> > > After start of KDM you see the login manager with the cursor blinking. You 
> > > can move the mouse and position the cursor as well as mark any text. 
> > > However, the keyboard does not change or enter any text, just as if there 
> > > where no keyboard. (I tried using an external USB keyboard as well. Did not 
> > > work either...)
> > > 
> > > The system is running without an xorg.conf file. I tried using one with 
> > > keyboard definitions in, but it did not change anything.
> > 
> > Copy and edit this file : 
> > cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf 
> > # This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any 
> > # modifications will be lost.
> > 
> > Section "InputClass"
> >         Identifier      "system-setup-keyboard"
> >         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
> >         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
> >         Option          "XkbLayout"     "pt"
> > #       Option          "XkbVariant"    "(null)"
> >         Option          "XkbOptions"    "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > 
> > meanwhile
> > setxkbmap pt 
> > will help you to have your keyboard on X .
> > loadkeys pt
> > will help have your keyboard on console 
> > (just change pt for yours kdb country)