SUSE KDE lost keyboard

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On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:48, Alan Gore wrote:
> On May 20, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Michael Sammartano wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> Thanks - it works! As far as getting into YaST, I mean. I disabled
> the firewall, but that didn't bring back VNC access this time.
> Perhaps I was just jumping to conclusions when I assumed that VNC
> access was connected with my disabling the firewall.
>
> But what YaST function could I use to "restore the keyboard", and
> what caused it to vanish in the first place? I tried he Keyboard
> function i the Hardware applet, but that just contained same the
> default US settings as I had installed with.
>
	More of a question than a suggestion, but if your KB works in the CLI, might 
the problem be in the Xserver where the KB is configured for the GUI? Would 
it help to reconfigure it through the CLI using xorg.conf or whatever?
	Just my uneducated guess....