On Monday 09 February 2009, Troy Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:51:13PM -0800, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > On Monday 09 February 2009, Troy Arnold wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:21:14PM -0800, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > ran aptitude upgrade this morning, and now the keyboard seems to have > > > > a funky layout in X.org... I can use the keyboard as usual from the > > > > console. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg? > > > > > > Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set the Options for the input device > > > representing your keyboard? > > > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > > > > Thanks for the ideas Troy. Just tried this, without effect. The keyboard > > appears to be setup properly in X.org... > > > > I just tried another keyboard, and it does the exact same thing. The > > symptoms are very strange: > > > > - keys pressed several times will cause the caps lock LED to toggle > > on/off - the number pad keys work fine > > - the keyboard layout appears to be somewhat mixed up, although some > > letters appear to match the keyboard > > That is funky. Judging by your Kmail User-Agent, you might be using KDE. > > If so, you should try the kde keyboard config widget. kcontrol for kde > 3.5x or system settings for 4x. > > If you can't fix it quickly, try creating a new user and logging into KDE > as that user. If it works, then you know the issue is with something in > your kde configs. > > A KDE brainfart actually makes more sense to me than having xorg freakout > after an update. > > -t > _______________________________________________
Hmmm. The problem is happening even before I login -- at the KDM login screen. I will try a different login manager tomorrow. Thanks, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
