Macbook keyboard not working in X11

I just installed arch on my macbook 2,1 and I got X11 to detect my screen, but the keyboard doesn't work. i.e. absolutly NO input.
The only thing to do is to emergency shutdown. I haven't really done anything to my xorg.conf except set the keyboard model:
Option "XkbModel" "madbook79"
Any Ideas?

I believe this will solve your problem: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging

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