Possible Major bug in X.org update

[Stephen Warren]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:43:15PM -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>>    I just updated my F9 system and when I restarted my box, my USB
>>    keyboard will not work.  It works under console mode and my USB mouse
>>    continues to work.  This is a major issue (for me at least) due to the
>>    fact that I have no PS/2 ports and this makes Fedora unusable.
>>    Mark Bidewell
> 
> The update to 1.5.0 pulled in an upstream change to input driver loading when
> no xorg is present or incomplete ServerLayouts are given. As a result, the kbd
> driver is not loaded automatically if no xorg.conf is present. This combines
> with the F9 patch to disable evdev keyboards - resulting in no keyboard being
> available.

Yuck. This probably hits a significant number of laptop users, since
they will have emptied out their xorg.conf to work around the synaptics
issue in bug 439386.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439386

Didn't the update mentioned above get tested at all?

> As said before, xorg-x11-server-1.5.0-2.fc9 reverts the upstream change and
> kbd is now loaded automatically unless explicitly specified otherwise.

Yup, this fixes it for me.