User Keyboard problems

[Jim]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:03 -0400, Jim wrote:
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>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:19 -0400, Jim wrote:
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>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:59 -0400, Jim wrote:
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>>>>>> One User has lost use of Keyboard on his home directory, If you hold a 
>>>>>> key down for about 5sec the character for that key will appear.
>>>>>> Went into the KDE /Control Center/Peripherals and settings for keyboard 
>>>>>> was the same as for  another normal working box.
>>>>>> Where is the keyboard controlled (file) from a users home directory ?
>>>>>> Holding down 'shift key' for 10 secs doesn't make any difference either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The other three users on this same box has use of keyboard on their home 
>>>>>> directory.
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>>>>> To help understand your question, when you say "home directory", do you
>>>>> mean "account"? It's not the same thing, and if you don't mean "account"
>>>>> your question doesn't seem to make sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> poc
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>>>> FC8/KDE
>>>> One of four users on same box can't use keyboard in their /home/user 
>>>> directory.
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>>> Still doesn't make sense. What you're saying is that the user changes to
>>> his home directory (i.e. does "cd ~") and suddenly can't use his
>>> keyboard?
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>>> poc
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>> The User tells me that there was a power failure and when he rebooted 
>> the box then he login using keyboard,
>> then when he got into his Desktop keyboard wouldn't respond, and still 
>> won't.
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>
> OK, that makes more sense. You did mean "account", not "home directory".
>
> Ask the user to log in using the other desktop, i.e. if he normally uses
> KDE, tell him to try Gnome for one session and see if it makes a
> difference. A power failure could do anything, but since it hasn't
> affected other users I'm guessing the keyboard hardware is OK. It's
> possible an X-related file got smashed and it's affecting him. Something
> similar just happened to me, though not with the keyboard, but I'll
> start another thread about that.
>
> poc
>
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This box only has KDE on it.
He will have  to start a new Desktop , under a different user name.