[Centos] Loosing keyboard

Fri Jan 14 00:00:19 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:15 +0100, dan1 wrote:
> Hello.
>  
> I am experiencing a problem with CentOS 3, it's that when I start
> Xwindow, my keyboard is lost and I can't do anything anymore. The Num
> Lock doesn't react nor the Caps lock. It's like if it would just be
> disabled. If I quit Xwindow, then my keyboard comes back again,
> working perfectly.
>  
> Did anybody also have this problem ? I had a look elsewhere but didn't
> see anything helpful. My XF86Config file has a normal input section
> and I tried to change it without success.
>  
> The current one:
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Keyboard0"
>     Driver "keyboard"
> EndSection
Mine looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Try running redhat-config-keyboard 

>  
> Of course I also changed the physical keyboard.

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