On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:47:54 -0700 patrick keshishian wrote: > > Any idea why reverting xorg.conf to previous working version and > restarting xdm/X retained the "broken" keyboard state?
No, but I've fixed garbled output in X under normal circumstances by running xsetkbmap gb. If it does the xsetkbmap code might give a clue.