2.5.50 keyboard won't work

In 2.5.50 i am completly unable to get my keyboard to work. I have selected the input device->keyboard support, but nevertheless it just doesn't work. The machine operates fine, as in the daemons all work, just no keyboard working.

1) This is probably a stupid stupid stupid user error.
2) I have been playing with this for the past 4 hours trying different options.
3) I am baffled.
4) Sorry if this isn't the right place for this.

Check that you have enabled everything needed for the keyboard, there is a whole list of options and they are all needed (and the top ones explicitly say so).

[Input devices, Serial I/O, KBD controller, Keyboards, AT keyboard (or so)]