Hmmm.... if the keyboard is not working, how did you shutdown X?
Sorry, other than being curious on how you shutdown X, I have no idea how
to make the MS Natural keyboard work.
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Installed RedHat 8... My keyboard (Microsoft Natural Pro) works fine up
> until X starts, then it's completely unresponsive. When I shutdown X, the
> keyboard works again. Any ideas about how to fix this? Here's some more
> info...
>
> The video chipset is an Intel i815, although RedHat autodetects it as an
> ATI Rage 128. If I boot into runlevel 3 (after disabling gpm, which
> wouldn't let me use the keyboard in runlevel 3 either), I can then run
> startx. I used redhat-config-xfree86 to change to the i815 (i810
> driver), but then X wouldn't start at all after that and I got "No devices
> detected" and "no screens found". Under the Section "Device" in
> XF86Config, redhat-config-xfree86 changed the Driver to "i810" and the
> BoardName to "Intel 815", but left Identifier, VendorName, and Device set
> to "ATI Rage 128".
>
> Here's the original XF86Config, before I ran redhat-config-xfree86:
>
> # File generated by anaconda.
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> FontPath "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "fbdevhw"
> Load "dri"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> # Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
> # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
> # following line
> # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> # Option "XkbDisable"
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> # Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> # or:
> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
> #Option "XkbOptions" ""
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"#
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us" #Option "XkbVariant" ""
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1280x1024"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> # no known options
> #BusID
> Identifier "ATI Rage 128"
> Driver "r128"
> VendorName "ATI Rage 128"
> BoardName "ATI Rage 128"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "ATI Rage 128"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
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