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catinaz

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Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 7

[solved] No keyboard to log-in

Hi every one,
Installed #! three (four?) days ago. So far so good. Feels like real DIY distro. Or shall I say newbies DIY distro, as not to offend Arch'ers (Even apps have to be added/removed manually from menu.)
Browsed this (and links) forum for some personal config. namely different language keyboard layouts. Did it as per suggestions in the forum. As well added fbxkb to autostart to show which layout is in use. Worked for couple of days, disappeared today for some reason. It's still there in autostart, and I didn't touch that file lately. But I can live without that, since toggle (Shift+Alt) still works and I only occasionaly switch between. Main reason is that after I added layouts I have noticed, that keyboard does not respond [at all] to input user name at log-in (mouse works). Now, the first thing I did after installing #! was to allow auto-login. No problem arriving to desktop. But I will play around (if, rather than when, I will have time) with some other configuration (dual screen) and doing Ctl+Alt+Backspace and log-in back is more convenient than reboot.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
P.S. Yes, I will back up files before changing anything. From now on. I promise!

Last edited by catinaz (2012-04-29 21:37:17)

catinaz

New Member

Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] No keyboard to log-in

Ok,
I was so fixed on Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination, that didn't even thought of trying Super+X to log of. So if I log-off by doing later, keyboard responses and I can log-in back. There fore, the problem lies width logging-off by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Still don't know why it disables keyboard.
Any thoughts any one?
Edited
Run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" few times disabled-rebooted-enabled key combination in question - now works fine. Only guess as to why it didn't work earlier is, that I had edited /etc/default/keyboard manually in the first place instead of running "dpkg" and put something wrong.
Tip of the day:
If you edit file, and end up with black screen, you, probably, haven't enabled screen-saver.
Cat

Last edited by catinaz (2012-04-29 21:36:57)