Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

[Antonio Olivares]

> I was away last week and updated my laptop around last
> Wednesday while on 
> vacation (bad move). I noticed that
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99-905.2.20080702 
> and the corresponding xorg-x11-server-common were updated.
> I am not sure 
> whether evdev was also updated then, or whether it had been
> updated a week or 
> so earlier (if so, then it is not the problem, but most
> likely the xserver 
> would be).
> 
> Since doing the update, I have full mouse functionality,
> but no keyboard. The 
> keys just type nothing at all in gnome, kde4.1 (which I
> use), kdm and gdm. The 
> keys work in grub and when I boot into run level 3 from
> grub (but limited, 
> cannot type ' or ", for example, just letters).
> 
> As per recent instructions, I do not use an xorg.conf file,
> but thinking that 
> that might be the problem, I tried to create a skeleton
> xorg.conf with just 
> the keyboard section, thinking that my keyboard doesn't
> like evdev and wanting 
> to make it use the old kbd driver instead (at least I
> presume that evdev is 
> the present default), but, as I just said, I am unable to
> type a ", so I am 
> unable to create an xorg.conf file.

Two ways of creating one, first boot into level 3 and create the xorg.conf file with

1) become root user
$ su -
passowrd:
# Xorg -configure or --configure
# cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

2) use system-config-display --reconfigure

and configure the specs manually.

This should generate an xorg.conf file.  I had the same situation running rawhide, one of the updates broke X and the kernel also had an oops, but putting back an xorg.conf file got me back on track.

Regards,

Antonio 
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