User Keyboard problems

[Jim]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:19 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:59 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> One User has lost use of Keyboard on his home directory, If you hold a 
>>>> key down for about 5sec the character for that key will appear.
>>>> Went into the KDE /Control Center/Peripherals and settings for keyboard 
>>>> was the same as for  another normal working box.
>>>> Where is the keyboard controlled (file) from a users home directory ?
>>>> Holding down 'shift key' for 10 secs doesn't make any difference either.
>>>>
>>>> The other three users on this same box has use of keyboard on their home 
>>>> directory.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> To help understand your question, when you say "home directory", do you
>>> mean "account"? It's not the same thing, and if you don't mean "account"
>>> your question doesn't seem to make sense.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> FC8/KDE
>> One of four users on same box can't use keyboard in their /home/user 
>> directory.
>>     
>
> Still doesn't make sense. What you're saying is that the user changes to
> his home directory (i.e. does "cd ~") and suddenly can't use his
> keyboard?
>
> poc
>
>   
The User tells me that there was a power failure and when he rebooted 
the box then he login using keyboard,
then when he got into his Desktop keyboard wouldn't respond, and still 
won't.