I wrote: > I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated > now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before.
I think the solution was to upgrade xorg-server. I thought it had already
been upgraded along with all the other X stuff, but it wasn't.
420 packages already built, 66 more packages to go. This 700 MHz mahine
definitely needs an upgrade.
Wonko

