USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

There was a patch pushed to koji last night to fix this issue.  Check
the fedora-test-list archives for a link.  I'd give it to you, but the
message disappeared on me for some odd reason.
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