x keyboard with most keys dead since update -- faq answer 3.2 no help

[Jon TURNEY]

Blake Thomas Andrew wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> Please help, I am quite desperate.
> 
> The day before yesterday I inadvertently upgraded to the new version of X.
> 
> I had had a slight problem -- emacs suddenly froze, and on restart, I
> found myself with a US keyboard layout throughout X. (I need
> latin-american). I thought that perhaps downloading setxkbmap using
> cygwin setup might help restore the keyboard layout, but I
> accidentally ended up downloading the whole current version of cygwin.
> 
> On restarting the XWin server, I found that xterm now did not respond
> to the keyboard.

May we see your /var/log/XWin.0.log, please.

Does setting a different keyboard map using setxkbmap make any difference
(as http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xkb-not-working)?

Cygcheck output as asked for in http://cygwin.com/problems.html ?

> More exactly, a little trial and error has shown that some keys work
> and some don't.
> 
> The keys that do not work are the main alphanumeric and punctuation keys.
> 
> But the spacebar, tab, enter, backspace, delete, cursor movement keys,
> all numberpad keys, the special </> key, (and probably all the
> function keys also) all do work.
> 
> I can also paste onto the command line.
> 
> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows Vista.
> 
> I have been searching for an answer for the past two days.
> 
> There is what seems to be the perfect solution in the Cygwin XFree FAQ
> -- question 3.2.
> 
> Unfortunately I am already using the startxwin.bat from the /usr/bin
> directory. I have the same problem even when I start XWin by
> double-clicking on this exact file. Viewing the file shows no
> reference to the XKEYSYMDB environment variable, and when I paste
> "echo $XKEYSYMDB" into the xterm command line and press Enter, nothing
> but a blank line is produced.
> 
> This seems to indicate that my problem is not the same as the problem
> that Answer 3.2 is the solution to.
> 
> In my attempts to solve the problem I have done a complete
> reinstall-from-scratch of cygwin. Same result -- can't use the
> keyboard.

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