[gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

[Grant]

I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in
6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is
always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard
on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard
works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware
problem.  Does anyone know what might have caused this?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

[Alex Schuster]

Grant writes:

 I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in
 6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is
 always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard
 on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard
 works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware
 problem.  Does anyone know what might have caused this?

If it working in the text console, but not in X, this might come from an
xorg upgrade without re-merging xf86-input-keyboard. emerge
@x11-module-rebuild to fix this.

Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

[Grant]

 I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in
 6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is
 always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard
 on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard
 works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware
 problem.  Does anyone know what might have caused this?

 If it working in the text console, but not in X, this might come from an
 xorg upgrade without re-merging xf86-input-keyboard. emerge
 @x11-module-rebuild to fix this.

Right on the money, that got it, thank you.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working

[Hung Dang]

You might need to remerge xorg11 driver. Try below command then reboot X 
to see if it fix your problem


emerge `qlist -I -C x11-drivers/`

Hung

On 11/14/11 19:25, Grant wrote:

I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in
6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is
always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard
on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard
works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware
problem.  Does anyone know what might have caused this?

- Grant