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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:59:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3pjCcNrZJa5ZF2AmdV7zJbDozbpONs7V8GGYgaoD26SQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC1B47C.5030500@wonkology.org>

>> I just finished updating my wife's laptop which hadn't been updated in
>> 6-12 months.  Her laptop's hardware is identical to mine which is
>> always kept up-to-date and works great.  After rebooting, the keyboard
>> on her laptop doesn't work although the mouse does work.  The keyboard
>> works in grub and after booting to a LiveCD so it's not a hardware
>> problem.  Does anyone know what might have caused this?
>
> If it working in the text console, but not in X, this might come from an
> xorg upgrade without re-merging xf86-input-keyboard. emerge
> @x11-module-rebuild to fix this.

Right on the money, that got it, thank you.

- Grant



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-15  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  0:25 [gentoo-user] Keyboard stopped working Grant
2011-11-15  0:38 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-15  0:59   ` Grant [this message]
2011-11-15  1:03 ` Hung Dang

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