keyboard not working

[Daniel]

After a VNC session (connecting to my computer) the keyboard on my computer will not work. I can type my password to login (in kdm) but after I get to the desktop, I can't type anything anywhere. I'm not sure if the VNC session had anything to do with it but... I rebooted a couple times but it still won't work. Any ideas?

[retired1af]

USB or PS2 connection?

[Daniel]

PS2. Though I did plug in a USB keyboard but it didn't work either. I also ran vxconf, no change.

[retired1af]

The only thing I can think of is mayby the VNC controller installed a different driver set for the keyboard. I've seen it happen in the past, and it really mucks things up. Although, isn't the standard  PS2 connections controlled by the kernel and not x.config?

[Daniel]

The only thing I can think of is mayby the VNC controller installed a different driver set for the keyboard.

how would I find out if this is the case?

[retired1af]

Can you get the output of demsg posted here?

[Daniel]

dmesg

Code:

HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.20)
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input2
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller (0x1106:0x0571 rev 0x06) at  PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD400LB-55DNA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD400BB-75DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hda: UDMA/100 mode selected
hdb: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: WDC WD200BB-75DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdc: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
hdd: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdd: UDMA/33 mode selected
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
        current capacity is 78125000 sectors (40000 MB)
        native  capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB)
hdb: Host Protected Area disabled.
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: Host Protected Area detected.
        current capacity is 39062500 sectors (20000 MB)
        native  capacity is 39102336 sectors (20020 MB)
hdc: Host Protected Area disabled.
hdc: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63
hdc: cache flushes not supported
 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 1.00
Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-869.
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2455]-ms
aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= options<6>QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
iscsi: registered transport (qla4xxx)
QLogic iSCSI HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.2.5
Copyright(c) 2004-2008 Emulex.  All rights reserved.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
DC390: clustering now enabled by default. If you get problems load
        with "disable_clustering=1" and report to maintainers
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.5.1 (Release Date: Thu Nov 16 15:32:35 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.03.16-rc1 Thu. Nov. 07 10:09:32 PDT 2007
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.010.
nsp32: loading...
ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.4.1 (April 24, 2007)
RocketRAID 3xxx/4xxx Controller driver v1.3 (071203)
stex: Promise SuperTrak EX Driver version: 3.6.0000.1
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
usbmon: debugfs is not available
116x: driver isp116x-hcd, 03 Nov 2005
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000d400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 11, io base 0x0000d800
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input3
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
raid6: int32x1    320 MB/s
raid6: int32x2    367 MB/s
raid6: int32x4    339 MB/s
raid6: int32x8    226 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1      695 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2     1109 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1     453 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2     906 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse1x2 (906 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.13.0-ioctl (2007-10-18) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
cpuidle: using governor ladder
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
wbsd: Winbond W83L51xD SD/MMC card interface driver
wbsd: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle.
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input4
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ReiserFS: hdb2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb2: journal params: device hdb2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb2: checking transaction log (hdb2)
ReiserFS: hdb2: journal-1153: found in header: first_unflushed_offset 5605, last_flushed_trans_id 259164
ReiserFS: hdb2: journal-1206: Starting replay from offset 1113105199273445, trans_id 1
ReiserFS: hdb2: journal-1299: Setting newest_mount_id to 415
ReiserFS: hdb2: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 408k freed
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
agpgart: Detected VIA KLE133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:50:2c:06:25:0c, IRQ 11
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
cyblafb: CyblaFB version 0.62 initializing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
fbcon: CyBla (fb0) is primary device
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.5 to 64
rtc_cmos: probe of 00:04 failed with error -16
Adding 499928k swap on /dev/hdb1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:499928k
ReiserFS: hdb3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hdb3: warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set ON
ReiserFS: hdb3: warning: - it is slow mode for debugging.
ReiserFS: hdb3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hdb3: journal params: device hdb3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hdb3: checking transaction log (hdb3)
ReiserFS: hdb3: journal-1153: found in header: first_unflushed_offset 3747, last_flushed_trans_id 361916
ReiserFS: hdb3: journal-1206: Starting replay from offset 1554421678870179, trans_id 3222397808
ReiserFS: hdb3: journal-1299: Setting newest_mount_id to 395
ReiserFS: hdb3: Using r5 hash to sort names
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Successfully done.
vboxdrv: Found 1 processor cores.
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.1.4 (interface 0x00100001).
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard as /class/input/input5
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:07.2-1
input: LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard as /class/input/input6
input: USB HID v1.10 Device [LITEON Technology USB Multimedia Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:07.2-1
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
warning: `smbd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

The stuff about the USB Multimedia Keyboard is probably when I tried plugging in a USB keyboard.

[retired1af]

That's strange, because I also see the PS/2 keyboard getting loaded as well..

input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input3

And you're still getting a "non-response" with both types of keyboard?

Doesn't look like there's been a driver change, and dmesg pretty much shows everything loading as it should. I'm grasping at straws here. Have you checked the BIOS?

OH! Does either keyboard have batteries in them?

[Daniel]

I haven't checked or changed the BIOS recently but I don't think that's the problem since I can type my password to login. Neither keyboard needs batteries.

[Daniel]

Found it! The solution was to turn off "Slow Keys" in the K control center. I think they had been activated by me accidentally holding down the shift key for 8 sec on the remote machine.

[retired1af]

Found it! The solution was to turn off "Slow Keys" in the K control center. I think they had been activated by me accidentally holding down the shift key for 8 sec on the remote machine.

Wow. I'd have NEVER thought to look in there.