RE: [XFree86] No Keyboard

[Conrad Song]

I had the same problem with Mandrake 10.0 + XFree86 4.4.0: the keyboard locked in runlevel 5, but not runlevel 3.  I finally started disabling modules using interactive boot and disabled Mandrake's "keytable" module.  Disabling it worked for me.  It wasn't necessary, but you may want to disable the "numlock" module as well.   It doesn't necessarily prove that "keytable" is the culprit, but certainly there is some interaction involved.