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.
>>>
>>> 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....
>
> 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).
mark