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

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 04/09/2010 06:11 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> 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.

Yes of course.  It came up with many links - none of which provided any 
useful help.  Which is why I'm posting here.

DR