Greetings!
I hope this is the right place to ask this question; I looked in all
the
usual places (FAQ, x.org, ubuntu.com, Google, etc.) to no avail.
I am running the latest Kubuntu Linux. Last week, when I was running
Kubuntu
9.something, one day my keyboard stopped working under X. (I have a PS/2
keyboard, 32-bit Athlon processor, 256 Mbytes of RAM.) I soon discovered that
the keyboard worked just fine in the console, and for the KDE login, but I
could not enter text into any window or widget after login. Also, pressing
numlock or capslock does not illuminate the indicator lights.
After fiddling with it for several days, I downloaded the latest
Kubuntu
(10.10) figuring that it was time for an upgrade anyway. After installation,
the keyboard worked fine for one day. Second day, I was back to the same
problem: console input just fine, but no response once logged into X. I tried
both another PS/2 keyboard and a USB keyboard. The system wouldn't boot
(kernel panic) with the USB keyboard; the PS/2 keyboard exhibited the exact
same problem as the original one. My xorg.conf file is rather sparse, and it
doesn't mention the keyboard.
Is there a configuration file somewhere that might effect this? I
presume it
must be an X problem since the keyboard works fine in console mode. I am hoping
that I have a corrupted configuration or initialization file somewhere that I
could fix. Or, is it possible to have a keyboard hardware failure that would
affect X but not the console, and that could be temporarily fixed by a new
installation?
--Mike
--
Michael P. Conlon
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