Xorg update kills keyboard

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 20:47 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> I had the same problem both under F9 and Fedora 10 alpha. There is no
> keyboard and it is impossible to type anything. It just hangs and does
> not even respond to shift-control-1-6 to get a command line login. I
> also use US-international (acentos), but that is not the problem. Mine
> is a USB keyboard.
> 
> The interim solution for me was to reinstall /etc/X11/xorg.conf, even
> though recent instructions have been that xorg is now self-configuring
> and the xorg.conf is not to be used any longer. On my laptop, it was
> the same. Both work fine, but only with the old xorg.conf in place.

Interesting, thanks. I backed out the change for now, but I guess I'll
report the problem to BZ.

I was keen on trying Xorg 1.5 as it looks like the memory leak problem
(which seems to be related to window effects under KDE) might be fixed.

poc