keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

[DJ Delorie]

I've had PS/2 keyboard problems in F17.  Two things to try:

1. Hold down a key and see if it starts auto-repeating.  In my case, the
   first keypress is lost, but auto-repeat keypresses get through.

2. Ctrl-Alt-2 to a text terminal and see if the keyboard works outside
   of X.  In my case, it did.

If your keyboard problems act like mine, you have the same problem, and
it's a bug in the X PS/2 keyboard driver.  Killing X resets it, and a
USB keyboard seems to work fine.