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Broken keyboard in XFree86



I have a newly installed debian (unstable) system.  So far, I can’t get X to work.  The mouse and display work fine, however the keyboard is completely unresponsive.  The machine doesn’t even respond to ctrl-alt-del, stop-a, or ctrl-alt-bspc.  If I ssh in and kill the X server, I’m dropped to a console at which point the keyboard works fine again.  I’ve seen many messages about problems with keymaps, but none where the keyboard just didn’t work at all.  If anyone could help I’d appreciate it.

 

$ dpkg -s xserver-xfree86

Package: xserver-xfree86

Status: install ok installed

Version: 4.2.1-11

 

$ uname -a

Linux phill-debian 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 GNU/Linux

 

Here is the relevant section from my XF86Config-4.  I’ve tried it with and without the “Option” lines.

 

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Keyboard0"

        Driver      "keyboard"

        Option "CoreKeyboard"

        Option  "XkbRules" "sun"

        Option "XkbModel" "type6"

        Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

 

--Phillip

 


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