Keyboard not usable after proposed system update.

[Cotopaxi]

Hi, I was proposed a system update by the Adept update manager, which I accepted.

After that system update, my keyboard was rendered unusable, which means I just could not type any more!

After some crazy & desperate attempts, I found out that I had to log in under KDE 4 instead of KDE 3.5. This way, I am able to write this text!

Anyhow, I want to have the keyboard available in KDE 3.5, mainly for two reasons.

1) I got used to the KDE 3.5 and I want to go on working under this environment.
2) Just for safety reasons, I want to have the keyboard working under both KDE environments.

Can anyone give me a helping hand? Thanks!

[dibl]

Re: Keyboard not usable after proposed system update.

If you will boot "Recovery Mode", I think it comes up with you logged in as root, with a "#" prompt. If so, run this:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then run

/etc/init.d/kdm start

and you should get a login splash screen and a working keyboard and desktop.

[Cotopaxi]

Re: Keyboard not usable after proposed system update.

Hi Dibl, thanks for your reply!

I did what you told me to do. The first command, I actually managed to go through the menu, within the terminal, but the second command could not be executed, the answer was: "Not starting K Display Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager."

So, I am still in KDE 4.0, which I find unstable to say the least!

Thanks again for your help!

[Rog131]

Re: Keyboard not usable after proposed system update.

"Not starting K Display Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager."

Hmm - what are you using ? kdm-kde4 ? gdm ?

Switch default display manager:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

or

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm-kde4

or

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm