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vespaman
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 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: No mouse or keyboard in X after update world.. [solved] |
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After some emerges on friday, my laptop keyboard and mouse is not working in X anymore.
Works fine in the normal shell, but as soon as I enter X, (xdm or kdm), they are dead.
I don't have a xorg.config, (never had on this laptop).
Are there some changes in how X works regarding this?
Yesterday I did a revdep-rebuild, which took all day and all night on this old box, but still no input.
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ph030
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| Already tried remerging: x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev, x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard, x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse (and if wanted/necessary: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics)? |
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vespaman
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| ph030 wrote: | | Already tried remerging: x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev, x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard, x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse (and if wanted/necessary: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics)? |
Well, at least now I have. xf86-input-synaptics wanted evdev from kernel, so I rebuilt that as well. Same thing though.
Not sure if this is a clue or not, but when I boot, and when the box shows the kde login dialog, I can switch to a shell simply by pressing alt-Fx, not ctrl-alt-Fx as I would normally do from within X.
Arrggh! I have now read the xorg log file more in detailed, and it shows as informationals (II) that HAL does not give X any keyboard or pointer. (I previously searched all the warnings, errors and 'mouse'+'mice'.
So I rebuilt HAL, which showed that it could not migrate the keyboard [/code]configuration from xorg.conf (which makes sense, since I have no xorg.conf!).
man hal did not do anything, so without knowing how to do a hal fdi file, I made a dummy xorg.conf containig mouse and keyboard stuff, re-emerged hal, deleted the xorg.conf again, and ... found that hald was not started by default at boot time. So rc-update add .. and Voila!
So, X needed HAL, which I had only partly installed.
Thanks for helping! |
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