[SOLVED] Kubuntu 8.10 : keyboard not responding

[sandro54]

Hello Guys,
after having installed (with synaptic) some lib. related to openoffice and KDE the system worked perfectly. After having restarted the system, it was working perfectly until the login (I have typed userid & password), but when I reached Desktop the keyboard stops working (non key at all responds), only the mouse works. I can't use Adept or Synaptic because they require the password that I can't type . So I can do anything, it is very frustating.

please could you help me ??
thanks in advance.
Sandro

[dibl]

Re: Kubuntu 8.10 : keyboard not responding

after having installed (with synaptic) some lib. related to openoffice and KDE the system worked perfectly.

It only worked because you had not yet restarted the X server. When you logged in the next time, the installed libs took effect.

Apparently you changed the keyboard definition or something. This not a common problem. If it were me, I guess I would start by booting the live CD, and opening /etc/X11/xorg.conf and look at the two stanzas that look something like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

and

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

The setup that you see with the Live CD booted is probably what you want to have in your installed xorg.conf file. You can mount your Kubuntu partition and edit the file from your Live CD session.

[sandro54]

Re: Kubuntu 8.10 : keyboard not responding

interesting suggestion .
At the login panel I switched on the terminal (ctrl+alt+f1) and I checked my xorg.conf and related copy that I made before; they are exactly the same, so I can exclude it.

When I restart Xserver from login panel with the current xorg.conf I still can type userid and passwd and/or switch on the terminal , that is not possible from the Desktop, so the problem could be related with KDE (I have KDE 4.2). ?? If Yes what can do ??

thanks again
bye Sandro

[dibl]

Re: Kubuntu 8.10 : keyboard not responding

Hmmm. So the computer sees the keyboard, but it gets cut off when you start KDE.

Brute Force (lose all settings) would be to rename the hidden ~/.kde directory, and then log out and log back in. It will write a new .kde directory. If you have valuable settings (mail or something), you can

mv .kde .kde_bak

to get access to the old settings.

[sandro54]

Re: Kubuntu 8.10 : keyboard not responding

Thank you dibl,

your support has been invaluable, now everything works perfectly .

Thanks again.