After X-server is started keyboard stops responding

cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

Hello to all of you, a fresh gentoo user here.

I'm having problems with keyboard detection when i run startx, for example when i run gnome or xterm, the graphical interface shows on the screen, but the keyboard doesn't accept any input.

Here are some output files/log to get you an idea of what might be wrong
Xorg.0.log http://bpaste.net/show/110926
dmesg http://bpaste.net/show/110927
lspci http://bpaste.net/show/110928

A few things i have already tried:

- reinstalled xf86-input-evdev (although this driver is not even once mentioned in Xorg.0, so maybe kernel doesn't load it..?)
- X -configure (it failed, i tried to print the output of this command using X -configure > x_configure.log, but the resulting .log was empty. At the end it said something like:
The number of created screens doesn't match number of detected devices, Configuration failed. It exits with error(2))
- when i try X -retro & sleep 5; killall X, it enters nicely in this graphic environment with a grey background and a cross-like cursor

Any comment or suggestion is much appreciated, let me know if there is more information that you need

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:24 pm Post subject:

emerge --info would be helpful. Specifically, any special USE= flags, INPUT_DEVICES= lines in /etc/make.conf?

Are you using an y special /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
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John R. Graham · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:25 pm Post subject:

Could you post the VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES variables from your make.conf, please?

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cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

Hey

here, emerge --info

http://bpaste.net/show/110935

make.conf

http://bpaste.net/show/110936

currently my xorg.conf.d is nonexistent, i have tried with several generic files but none worked

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:09 pm Post subject:

Try re-emerging xorg-server if you added evdev to make.conf after emerging xorg-server, or emerge --newuse world?
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cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

currently my xorg.conf.d is empty, i tried before with different layout for keyboard but none worked

i included evdev before i emerged xorg, but will try reinstalling it

cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

if i re-emerge the xorg-server, do i also have to reinstall the gnome package? Probably they aren't related, but still just to be sure. Would really like to avoid compiling the whole gnome package if possible

John R. Graham · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 6:40 pm Post subject:

No, you shouldn't have to do that.

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cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

I re-emerged xorg-server, unfortunately that didn't helped. Worse even, now even x-server doesn't start, it's finishes with error 2, saying it can't find a screen

here is output of a new Xorg.0.
http://bpaste.net/show/110993

Does anyone know how can i direct the output of some command to a file
i tried startx > x.log but it results in an empty x.log file(it works when i try for example with ls > file)

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject:

Eek. It's not merging things properly. Now it's missing xf86-video-intel too...

Try emerge -1 xf86-video-intel to fix the X video driver, this is very weird that it disappeared. Almost seems something wrong with your portage software... Did something unmerge?

You can do startx > x.log 2>&1 to direct stderr to the log file as well.
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cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

thanks, i emerged xf86-video-intel, i'm back to where i previously was.

hm, any suggestions what could be wrong with portage?

here is the output of X -configure,
http://bpaste.net/show/111008

and here a xorg.conf.new that it tries to create, i don't know where multiple screens are coming from ? Beside that the keyboard part seems ok? I put a copy of these file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, but with no effect

http://bpaste.net/show/111009

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:09 pm Post subject:

I've sort of been jaded by having no xorg.conf at all recently -if you have only one display and not-so-special hardware, you don't need a xorg.conf.

Your xorg conf that you posted appears to imply you have two displays? Is this true?

It should automatically goto evdev if there is no xorg.conf...
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cHewap · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Posts: 7

No, i only have one display. Does anyone have more hints what could be wrong? I'm really eager to get this thing working:)

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada

The way X -configure configured your keyboard is for it to use older 'kbd' driver, not evdev. 'kbd' driver is given by x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
package. You need either to install this package, or change 'Driver "kbd"' to 'Driver "evdev"' in keyboard section, or better, delete xorg.conf file completely and see
if that sufficiently works for you.