lost my keyboard in KDE
 

I am running Fedora Core 4 with KDE on my Toshiba laptop. Everything was working fine until the end of last week. I cannot remember changing anything, but all of a sudden I lost the use of my keyboard in XWindows, it works fine in a console but nothing anywhere in XWindows. I am baffled, I have reviewed my xorg.conf and everything looks right. Any ideas on things to check, or correct?

Scott Adams

Scott Adams, mmm, reminds me of Dilbert.

Anyhow, the first thing I would do is remove xorg.conf and replace it with an original or default. Everything may look fine and nice, but you never know if one errant character got thrown in the mix.

Secondly, could you provide us with some information: type of keyboard, keyboard driver used in xorg, connection type (USB, PS/2), and anything else that could be relevant, perhaps the snippet from your keyboard section in xorg.conf.

It is kind of hard to determine the problem without knowing a few more things, it doesn't seem that any one particular thing could cause such behavior, other than KDE itself (you might try another, less intrusive, window manager such as fluxbox or simply the default X window manager, just for testing purposes).