[CentOS] keyboard problem

Tue Aug 9 18:37:57 UTC 2011
bcb <bbowler at bigelow.org>

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.
>>
>> If I boot to a command line, it works, as soon as X gets involved,
>> there is no response at all from the keyboard.  The on-screen keyboard
>> does work.  The physical keyboard works in the host OS and all of the
>> other guest OSes on the machine.  It works in the original CentOS 5.6
>> VM.
> <snip>
> You might want to play with xorg.conf (AFTER MAKING A BACKUP!!!) (I just
> adore xorg's rewriting a working one into a non-working one....
> 
>       mark

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...

Bruce