Bug#571604: bug (assumed to be in) xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard broken in X server)

[David Wlazlo <dwlazlo@gmail.com>]

Following the thread from bug #567756, Ariel Garcia opened a new bug report claiming that this problem only was applicable with an empty xorg.conf

Please see bug #571636.


Quote:


The problem dissapears if instead of having an empty   xorg.conf file, 
I add the following "manual" configuration:

----------------------
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "L0"

        InputDevice     "k0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "k0"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/event4"

EndSection
----------------------

Endquote.

I tried this, and also the suggested change to the Device option to reflect a file listed in 

/dev/input/by-path/ 

or 

/dev/input/by-id/

Strangely though I had no file within either of these directories corresponding to a keyboard of any kind, 

just two entries:

/dev/input/by-id/usb-Apple_Computer_Apple_Internal_Trackpad-event-mouse


and

/dev/input/by-id/usb-Apple_Computer_Apple_Internal_Trackpad-event-mouse

And clearly this fix didn't work for me.

So does this mean my keyboard is not being detected at all by Hal or udev (or whatever it is now)?