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


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.

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.

I need cygwin for my work -- and I haven't been able to do any work
for the last three days. Please help!

Thanks

Andrew Thomas Blake

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