Keyboard input stopped working on Solaris 11 Live x86 Toshiba R835 Notebook

I can boot, and keyboard input works for login, but does not work for xterm, terminal, Firefox, ... Mouse works for gparted and apps. It did work for 8 hrs but stopped. Any suggestions ?

brebs wrote:
(EE) Error loading keymap /tmp/server-0.xkm
I would be googling for that. E.g. see thread.
So did you update xkeyboard-config? It's tedious that you haven't had the sense yet to list which packages got updated, along with version numbers.
It's nice to see you enter here, brebs!
A few things have happened:
I just noticed that the file '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' isn't present at all! It was present when I posted the thread (I think). So X didn't even start. I had to create .xinitrc in my home directory with single like 'exec xterm'. X started fine but keyboard still didn't work.
Out of nowhere, I thought of using nouveau drivers instead of Nvidia drivers. So I went ahead and switched to nouveau and bam - keyboard is working. Enabled GDM and keyboard is still working. I still would like know what went wrong with Nvidia - for educational purposes.
What more details should I provide? I'd like to have Nvidia drivers back.
Last edited by akshay2000 (2013-02-25 16:17:07)

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