On Sunday 22 November 2009 22:26:36 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > Hey, > > I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me > wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password > and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another > tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user > from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). > > These are the packages the update pulled in: > > x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 > 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 > app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 > www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 > > I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to > change anything. > > I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What > does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should.
Do you have consolekit in USE? If so, is it configured properly? There's an elog about it, it displays when you emerge the relevant X package -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
