On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:47 -0400, Jim wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:03 -0400, Jim wrote:
>
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:19 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:59 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> One User has lost use of Keyboard on his home directory, If you
hold a
>>>>>> key down for about 5sec the character for that key will appear.
>>>>>> Went into the KDE /Control Center/Peripherals and settings for
keyboard
>>>>>> was the same as for another normal working box.
>>>>>> Where is the keyboard controlled (file) from a users home
directory ?
>>>>>> Holding down 'shift key' for 10 secs doesn't make
any difference either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The other three users on this same box has use of keyboard on
their home
>>>>>> directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> To help understand your question, when you say "home
directory", do you
>>>>> mean "account"? It's not the same thing, and if you
don't mean "account"
>>>>> your question doesn't seem to make sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> poc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> FC8/KDE
>>>> One of four users on same box can't use keyboard in their /home/user
>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Still doesn't make sense. What you're saying is that the user
changes to
>>> his home directory (i.e. does "cd ~") and suddenly can't use
his
>>> keyboard?
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The User tells me that there was a power failure and when he rebooted
>> the box then he login using keyboard,
>> then when he got into his Desktop keyboard wouldn't respond, and still
>> won't.
>>
>
> OK, that makes more sense. You did mean "account", not "home
directory".
>
> Ask the user to log in using the other desktop, i.e. if he normally uses
> KDE, tell him to try Gnome for one session and see if it makes a
> difference. A power failure could do anything, but since it hasn't
> affected other users I'm guessing the keyboard hardware is OK. It's
> possible an X-related file got smashed and it's affecting him. Something
> similar just happened to me, though not with the keyboard, but I'll
> start another thread about that.
>
> poc
>
>
This box only has KDE on it.
He will have to start a new Desktop , under a different user name.
Take a look at /home/<user>/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc and see if anything
stands out as different from a working users's setup. Also, run "xev" to
see if keyboard events are actually being received.
poc