[ILUG] Keyboard problems

[Ivan Griffin]

Maybe it is a HAL issue?

You could try disabling hot plugging to see if makes any difference.
i.e. something along the lines of what is suggested in 
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65011

Cheers,
Ivan

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Brendan Halpin wrote:

> My keyboard has stopped working under Gnome (Debian testing). It stopped
> during a session this morning, and resists restarting gdm, rebooting,
> even apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> The keyboard works in console mode, and in X as far as entering username
> and password, but once the gnome session starts, it is completely inert
> (LEDs don't respond to Caps-Lock etc.).
>
> I can get a TWM session going, and that works, but makes me feel like
> it's 1988 again.
>
> What to look at?
>