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Every time I switch to a virtual console and back to X.org (1.5.3) the keyboard is disabled. The only way to get the keyboard back is to restart the X server. There is no message in the system logs. How can I fix this?

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Have you looked at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? Does the problem persist if you switch consoles via the chvt command:superuser.com/questions/33065/…? – nagul Sep 2 '09 at 18:47
No hints in the log file. And chvt doesn't solve the problem – PiedPiper Sep 2 '09 at 22:40
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I don't use Gentoo, but I had similar problem on Arch. There's an xf86-input-evdev package in Arch repo, it turns out installing this package usually helped. This package provide one significant file (rest is just a bunch of includes/manuals):

xf86-input-evdev /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so

try to figure out how to get this file on Gentoo:)

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xf86-input-evdev is already installed – PiedPiper Sep 13 '09 at 10:14
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install xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard

and make sure hal is running

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xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard are installed. And hal is running. – PiedPiper Sep 26 '09 at 23:53
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It'd be handy to know...

  • what version of linux
  • what make and model of hardware
  • is this a USB keyboard, builtin (notebook/netbook/laptop), or other?
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The original question was from September. This problem has now gone away after kernel upgrades and an X-server upgrade to 1.6.3. I never did find out what was causing the problem. – PiedPiper Dec 4 '09 at 0:28
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