Re: Broken keyboard in XFree86

[Steve Pacenka <s.pacenka@verizon.net>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:42, Thurmond, Phillip wrote:
> 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.
> 


> 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

Just to make sure, does this file also refer to that keyboard spec in
the ServerLayout section:

Section "ServerLayout"
    ...
    ...
    InputDevice "Keyboard0"
    ...
    ...
EndSection


And have you tried other keyboard types, like "type5"?  I'm not sure
what type my U10's keyboard is, but it's newer than Type 5s I own and I
still use the type5 model in XF86Config-4.  I don't remember having a
type6 choice (in this case 4.2.1-6) during setup.

-- good luck, SP