[ale] strange keyboard problem

[Preston Boyington]

a friend of mine has upgraded her laptop and now she has an odd problem. 
  when gdm automatically logs her into her desktop she has no keyboard 
functions.  if she logs out then her keyboard starts working and life is 
good again.

have also tried without the automatic login and get nothing.

anyone heard of this before?  she was running elive and now has 
basically moved into debian "testing" by doing a dist-upgrade and 
commenting out the elive and backports repositories.

i don't know what kind of session or theme manager Enlightenment 17 
uses, but when i tried to change fonts in Gnome it griped about 
something not letting the gnome-session-manager start.  so now she has 
Gnome with the same (or similar) style as her elive desktop.  i wonder 
if this also is part of the problem.  (She has switched to FVWM-Crystal 
currently and doesn't have any issues with legibility.)

as usual, any ideas will be appreciated.  lol, by the way, this is her 
"learning box" so she is excited that she finally has a problem to solve. :D


thanks,
Preston

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