Maybe it is a HAL issue?
You could try disabling hot plugging to see if makes any difference.
i.e. something along the lines of what is suggested in
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65011
Cheers,
Ivan
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> My keyboard has stopped working under Gnome (Debian testing). It stopped
> during a session this morning, and resists restarting gdm, rebooting,
> even apt-get dist-upgrade.
>> The keyboard works in console mode, and in X as far as entering username
> and password, but once the gnome session starts, it is completely inert
> (LEDs don't respond to Caps-Lock etc.).
>> I can get a TWM session going, and that works, but makes me feel like
> it's 1988 again.
>> What to look at?
>
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