[ale] strange keyboard problem

[vaidhy at loonys.net (Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan)]

I would start X from command line to see if I can see any errors.. 
Further, checking /var/log/XFree or something would be useful..

Vaidhy

Preston Boyington wrote:
> a friend of mine has upgraded her laptop and now she has an odd 
> problem.  when gdm automatically logs her into her desktop she has no 
> keyboard functions.  if she logs out then her keyboard starts working 
> and life is good again.
>
> have also tried without the automatic login and get nothing.
>
> anyone heard of this before?  she was running elive and now has 
> basically moved into debian "testing" by doing a dist-upgrade and 
> commenting out the elive and backports repositories.
>
> i don't know what kind of session or theme manager Enlightenment 17 
> uses, but when i tried to change fonts in Gnome it griped about 
> something not letting the gnome-session-manager start.  so now she has 
> Gnome with the same (or similar) style as her elive desktop.  i wonder 
> if this also is part of the problem.  (She has switched to 
> FVWM-Crystal currently and doesn't have any issues with legibility.)
>
> as usual, any ideas will be appreciated.  lol, by the way, this is her 
> "learning box" so she is excited that she finally has a problem to 
> solve. :D
>
>
> thanks,
> Preston
>