[arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

[Xavier Chantry]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> So .... WTF?!?!?!?  Hal sees the keyboard.  And xev running inside the x
>> session sees the keyboard.  SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN
>> MY X SESSIONS?!?!?  ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
>
> Wee hee!  It gets weirder!
>
> * Bizarrely enough, *some* of the keys on the keyboard actually work (such
> as / * - + on the numeric keypad).
>
> * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this:
> expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86
>
>
> W  T  F  ? ! ?
>

Did you try googling for that error ?
For instance I felt on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364932
which gives many things to check.