Keyboard stops working in X under RH 8

[Scott]

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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