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[Kajikawa Jeremy <belxjander_serechai AT yahoo.co.nz>]

I had the same issue when building an 
~amd64 archspec Gentoo install in a VM for some freelance work...
unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard fixed it for X and left only
the active application at the time of the freeze affected

a "ps ax" then kill on the affected program restored everything

that was 1.7 archives

Jeremy

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:09 +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:12:23 +0100 (CET)
> schrieb Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net>: 
>  
> > Do you have xorg-server built with HAL? How about xf86-input-evdev?
> 
> Part of the problem is that Xorg tries to use evdev by default driver
> even if it is not installed.
> And then, you have to make sure that hal/dbus is running. There's too
> much broken when you don't get several things right.
> An the breakage is rather major. But well, we do have a wiki page on
> that issue and it is known how to get things right, but it's sad
> nevertheless.
> 
> In that light it's only a sidenode that Xorg ignores keyboard
> configuration (keymaps etc.) in xorg.conf since some time.
> At least for me... I resorted to running setxkbmap in my .xinitrc,
> didn't want to bother with XML hacking for hal.
> For my dad's PC we have a nice effect of the keyboard layout being
> horribly messed up when we try to configure the layout using the KDE
> control center (which _does_ use setxkbmap, but perhaps the keyboard
> model selection borks up). That features the Arrow keys being mappend
> to Super_L or Print, or at some time in between we had around 130
> instances of ksnapshot (screenshots) started by one press of the Print
> key (instead of one).
> 
> Stuff seems to work with not touching the KDE settings and rather
> putting a "setxkbmap de" in the Autostart... but the next time my dad
> forgets about me telling "don't touch that configuration dialog in the
> control center" I'll have funny phone calls...
> 
> So, I'm all for official Xorg updates in a 6-month cycle. So at least
> one has only to take care of breakage two times a year... and possibly
> all those who checked out the latest stuff of the parts have
> discovered/fixed some bugs in that time.
> 
> Oh, and for synaptics driver... that's a reason to keep xorg.conf on my
> laptop: I figured that the alternative for HAL automagic is just the
> evdev mouse driver...? I configured synaptics in the config file to
> have the necesary features, helping a bit to lessen the pain of not
> having a TrackPoint anymore (just a bit *snif*).
> 
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> who is still undecided if he wants to upgrade from xorg-server 1.4, for
> he fears the random input event freeze he had with 1.5 ...
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