Hi, Did emerge -C xfree and after that emerge xorg-x11. After that it is imposible to enter any texts in any gnome application I have tried (gnome-terminal,gedit,nautilus etc.). This is only for non-root users. Root user is fine. Had development-sources 2.6.3 kernel and with xfree 4.3 everything was fine. Also last night emerged 2.6.6 kernel but no change. Both kernels have: CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 Also, found in one forum's thread a tip to add users to tty group in /etc/groups but no go. This transition xfree-->x.org should be smooth. Thank you for your work.
i also had this one in the early gnome 2.6+xorg days i "fixed" it when i removed my gconf directories related to multimedia keys ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/ or one of its subdirs, don't remember then, it went fine
yep this is probably your x keybord settings
I can confirm that the solution in reply #2 works. For me, the problem started after upgrading to the masked xorg-x11 builds (6.8.99.*). Input to non-gtk apps (terminals etc) worked fine. Removing .gconf/.../keyboard directory fixed the problem.
Reassigning to gnome to see if they want to do anything since it's a gconf/ gnome xkb settings issue.
xorg-x11 is stable at this point, seeing as the issue was a configuration issue, and no one else has reported issues, marking this as invalid.
