On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> So .... WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x >> session sees the keyboard. SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN >> MY X SESSIONS?!?!? ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!! > > Wee hee! It gets weirder! > > * Bizarrely enough, *some* of the keys on the keyboard actually work (such > as / * - + on the numeric keypad). > > * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: > expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 > > > W T F ? ! ? > Did you try googling for that error ? For instance I felt on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364932 which gives many things to check.