Re: x keyboard with most keys dead since update -- faq answer 3.2 no help

[Blake Thomas Andrew <blakethomasandrew at gmail dot com>]

Here is the XWin log output, and cygcheck.out is attached. Thanks for your help.

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090205)
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:

/usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 800
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 2560 height: 1024 depth: 32
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
(--) 5 mouse buttons found
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0000080A" (0000080a)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "Latin American" (80a), type "4"
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the disp
lay.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the di
splay.
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> Blake Thomas Andrew wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> Please help, I am quite desperate.
>>
>> The day before yesterday I inadvertently upgraded to the new version of X.
>>
>> I had had a slight problem -- emacs suddenly froze, and on restart, I
>> found myself with a US keyboard layout throughout X. (I need
>> latin-american). I thought that perhaps downloading setxkbmap using
>> cygwin setup might help restore the keyboard layout, but I
>> accidentally ended up downloading the whole current version of cygwin.
>>
>> On restarting the XWin server, I found that xterm now did not respond
>> to the keyboard.
>
> May we see your /var/log/XWin.0.log, please.
>
> Does setting a different keyboard map using setxkbmap make any difference
> (as http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xkb-not-working)?
>
> Cygcheck output as asked for in http://cygwin.com/problems.html ?
>
>> More exactly, a little trial and error has shown that some keys work
>> and some don't.
>>
>> The keys that do not work are the main alphanumeric and punctuation keys.
>>
>> But the spacebar, tab, enter, backspace, delete, cursor movement keys,
>> all numberpad keys, the special </> key, (and probably all the
>> function keys also) all do work.
>>
>> I can also paste onto the command line.
>>
>> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows Vista.
>>
>> I have been searching for an answer for the past two days.
>>
>> There is what seems to be the perfect solution in the Cygwin XFree FAQ
>> -- question 3.2.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am already using the startxwin.bat from the /usr/bin
>> directory. I have the same problem even when I start XWin by
>> double-clicking on this exact file. Viewing the file shows no
>> reference to the XKEYSYMDB environment variable, and when I paste
>> "echo $XKEYSYMDB" into the xterm command line and press Enter, nothing
>> but a blank line is produced.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that my problem is not the same as the problem
>> that Answer 3.2 is the solution to.
>>
>> In my attempts to solve the problem I have done a complete
>> reinstall-from-scratch of cygwin. Same result -- can't use the
>> keyboard.
>

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