[CentOS] keyboard problem

Tue Aug 9 19:34:38 UTC 2011
bcb <bbowler at bigelow.org>

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:09:25 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

> on 8/9/2011 10:29 AM bcb spake the following:
>> OK, I know what I'm doing is "officially unsupported", but perhaps
>> someone has some suggestions...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'm at a loss and would love some advice on where to look next.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Bruce
> Did you look for any leftover packages that didn't upgrade? Something
> like rpm -qa |grep el5

bingo!

xorg-x11-drv-evdev was still haning around from 5.6.  Couldn't "update" 
it, so erased it, then installed it and all (so far) is right with the 
keyboard.  There are a few others that are still "old" but that was the 
problem this time.

Thanks!
Bruce