>> I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in >> 6-12 months. Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is >> always kept up-to-date and works great. After rebooting, the keyboard >> on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work. The keyboard >> works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware >> problem. Does anyone know what might have caused this? > > If it working in the text console, but not in X, this might come from an > xorg upgrade without re-merging xf86-input-keyboard. emerge > @x11-module-rebuild to fix this.
Right on the money, that got it, thank you. - Grant