SUSE KDE lost keyboard

[Michael Sammartano]

If your keyboard works at the command line, su to root and open yast by typing the command > yast
This will bring you to a command interface of yast. You have all the same functionality as you would if using a gui. You can also restore your keyboard from here ;)
---- Alan Gore <agore at qwest.net> wrote: 
> Thanks for the help last week on my problem with getting remote VNC  
> access to a new SUSE installation. I found that my problem was an  
> overenthusiastic SUSE firewall. Although I checked the firewall port  
> open options when I opted in YaST for enabling the VNC ("Remote KDE  
> desktop") server. There must be a bug that is causing the wrong port  
> to be opened for VNC. I should be able to go into YaST firewall  
> configuration and manually open port 5900.
> 
> But I've hot a new problem: suddenly, KDE can't see m keyboard. It  
> doesn't see any characters I enter, except that the Alt-F4  
> combination, which used to close the current window, now pops me out  
> to a kernel login. The keyboard works fine here, so I know it's not  
> my hardware.
> 
> Wiyjout a keyboard in KDE, I can't enter the root password needed to  
> get into YaST to reconfigure the firewall. This prevents me from  
> getting VNC  access back. Is there a way of disabling the firewall  
> without a keyboard, or from he kernel login in which my keyboard stll  
> works?
> 
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