lost X11 input from kybd

[आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla]

,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote:
| I'm running FreeBSD-current.  I updated about 30 hours ago, did a
| rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file
| at all.  I have to explain that I start my X11 via startx, I dislike
| using anything like xdm (or kdm,gdm etc) so I always use startx, relying
| on a ~/.xinitrc I have doctored nicely, to get me into kde.  Well, like
| I normally do, I loeed in as root on ttyv0, my user "chuckr" on ttyv1,
| and then did the startx as chuckr on ttyv1.  Everything started up fine,
| but when I tried to kill an accientally started xterm, I found I
| couldn't kill it with a control-D.  After a bit of experimentation, it
| became obvious that I coulld get no keyboard input.  Thank god I can
| still use the mouse perfectly, so I can kill X11 for troubleshooting via
| the mouse fine.  After I did that, I found that all my keyboard input
| which hadn't shown up on any xterm was pasted instead on the screen of
| ttyv1, from which I'd started up X11 to begin with.
| 
| So, I can't get my keyboard input to go to X11.  I would REALLY love any
| guesses at all about why this is, because I can';t use X now  on
| FreeBSD, and that's my mailer.  I am using a poor replacement for this
| now, so I would really like to know what's causinbg this ...
| 
| Oh, I have to add, I tried rolling the kernel back to kernel.old, no
| differentce, it;s still bad.  I tried (after moving kernel.old back to
| kernel) to download and install a new world and kernel.  Still fails
| also.  I need some help here, badly.

Very basic guess,  but does your xorg.conf is reconfigured recently,
check for something like following  in xorg.conf:

---8<----8<----
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
--->8---->8----

Anyways, have you tried 'xinit xterm', to see if X11 is receiving
keyboard input, without KDE ? see, if there're any suspecting error
messages, in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल                      http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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