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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
