Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 198823
keyboard broken under x after ugrade from fc4
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:37 EST
Description of problem: After upgrading to fc5 from fc4, my ps2 keyboard stopped functioning under X. It still worked fine at the console. Also, it worked fine during the (graphical) install process. The X console output included a number of error/warning messages related to XKEYBOARD kemapping, e.g.: expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1: line 52 of pc Despite much searching, I did not find any reports of related issues in the fedora bug tracker. I did turn up something similar in the debian tracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364932 And I was able to use the information there to apparrently resolve the issue. I had installed two packages a while back to support compiling some old software: compat-libs-6.2-3 libc5compat-X11 and these in turn installed a number of libraries under /usr/i386-glibc21-linux /usr/lib/libc5-compat which apparrently conflicted with the new xorg installation, somehow preventing the keyboard from working properly. rpm -e compat-libs-6.2-3 libc5compat-X11 seems to have resolved the issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If you encounter this bug again in the latest release of Fedora Core, please reopen this bug so we could test and work with you to resolve the issue in the current environment. Thanks. On this issue may be relevant discussion at http://www.sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=297015 (in Russian), where somebody tried to install Oracle 8.1.7B on Fedora Core 5. The suggested solution was to install normal Fedora Core 5, packages compat-db, compat-gcc-32, compat-gcc-32-c++, compat-gcc-32-g77, compat-libf2c-32, compat-libgcc-296, compat-libstdc++, compat-libstdc++-33, compat-openldap, compat-readline43, compat-slang, and then make a link make a link to older version of GCC (ln –s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc).