Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

[<mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John A Chaves" <chaves@computer.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard


> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been covered, search function gets no result...
> > I have been running sarge flawlessly since May 2004, doing regular 
> > apt-get dist-upgrades.
> > Today, dist-upgrade included over 100 MBs of mostly KDE stuff, and 
> > others... anyway it finished without errors, when I rebooted, the 
> > keyboard doesn't work.
> > It will work if I boot to recovery mode. It also still works under XP.
> > I have done dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to no avail.
> > If you can help I will appeciate it.
> > Thanks
>
> I had the same problem.  Don't know which Xserver options
> cause the problem, but restoring /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers
> from /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers.dpkg-old solved it for me.
I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in that 
directory.
Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it 
without a keyboard.
Thanks........
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact 
> listmaster@lists.debian.org