[CentOS] keyboard problem

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:55:17PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> bcb wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:01:07 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote:
> >> bcb wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>> I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware
> >>> player.  I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything
> >>> worked after cloning, it did.  I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did
> >>> an upgrade (I know, unsupported!).  I've got the system to the point
> >>> where everything works except the keyboard.
> >>>
> >
> > but there is no xorg.conf and there are indications on line that it's no
> > longer used, preferring dynamic configuration and xrandr instead.  Of
> > course xrandr is only display, not kbd, configuration...
> 
> Dunno. I'm running 6 on my workstation, and I *do* have an xorg.conf,
> though I will admit that I'm also using kmod-nvidia, and twinview (two
> monitors, spanning).

If I rememeber correctly, nvidia modules usually create an xorg.conf.
You might try reinstalling xorg-x11-drv-keyboard


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