USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 17:01 -0600, linux guy wrote:
> I installed the latest F9 updates this morning via yum update.   
>  
> I'm running a Dell desktop.  I'm using a Logitech USB keyboard and
> mouse.   
>  
> They worked fine for the last several years.    I rebooted this
> afternoon because my computer seemed to be running really slow.   When
> I got to the graphical login screen, I found the keyboard and mouse no
> longer worked.   I could not input my password.   However, I found
> that ctr-F6 did work and that got me to a graphical login.   Once in a
> console, my keyboard worked fine.  I rebooted several times with
> different kernels.   My USB mouse and keyboard didn't work with any of
> them.
>  
> Any idea how this might be fixed ?
>  
> I seem to remember that yum installed a couple new X files this
> morning.   Could someone tell me which files they were and how to roll
> back to the previous  versions ?

You may be seeing this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462606 which seems to be
caused by upgrading to Xorg 1.5. Note that one contributor suggests
trying a minimal xorg.conf. I haven't tried this but I'm about to.

If it doesn't work, you can regress to an earlier version of Xorg by
installing it via rpm (with the --oldpackage option). I did this
yesterday to be able to use my system. Let me know if you need help with
this.

poc