[lug] keyboard weirdness after updates....

[Bear Giles]

Yeah, once I got back in I did a 'dist-upgrade' and once it finished 
everything worked great.  I must have been killed by the incremental 
upgrades not catching a key dependency.

Bear

Dallas Masters wrote:
> It may be related to new versions of X using HAL to manage devices.  
> You'll need to make your HAL rules match your hardware.  The keyboard 
> caused many folks upgrade problems.
>
> Dallas
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:10 PM, bgiles <bgiles at coyotesong.com 
> <mailto:bgiles at coyotesong.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been updating my system and getting very bizarre results.
>
>     1) switching from xdm/enlightenment to gdm/gnome resulted in my X
>     session losing every other character.  That's not quite right -
>     once I got into gnome and brought up a terminal it looked like I
>     was getting special 16-bit characters instead of just dropping
>     every other character.  I don't know why this would have changed,
>     but the keyboard was fine at a virtual terminal.
>
>     2) I explicitly updated the x-server and now the system locks up
>     once it hits X.  This even happens with knoppix!  I've tried
>     booting into single-user mode but I don't seem to have the root
>     password now, one of the drawbacks of always using sudo.  (I
>     thought I had changed it to a known value, but it's not working.)
>      I've tried to boot into a text-only knoppix mode but am having
>     unrelated problems.
>
>     Has anyone else seen keyboard problems related to X?  I don't
>     think it's hardware since the keyboard still works, e.g., when
>     entering knoppix options when booting from a CD.
>
>     P.S., I know, the usual answer is to ssh into the system.  But the
>     network isn't working.  I don't know if there were problems
>     related to the update or if the system is locking up that hard.
>
>     TIA
>
>     Bear
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