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jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

running archlinux on Vmware , installed fluxbox, when in fluxbox the mouse and the keyboard doesnt work.. Installed xf86-input-vmmouse, but still cant find any input devices. Same thing  can be seen in the Xorg logs..

why i cannot understand. Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by jinn (2008-09-29 15:32:40)

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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

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Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

Only in fluxbox? Not if you use any other window manager? I guess, hwd -x could help you.

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jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

No not only fluxbox, its all window managers. Thats why i wrote X on the subject.

ill try hwd -x .

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hwd -x helped. thanks. I guess the autoscripting of xorg.conf is not the best yet..

Last edited by jinn (2008-09-29 15:32:20)

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n-a-g-r-o-m

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From: Joensuu, Finland

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 7

Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

This says solved, but my problem is so similar that I don`t realy want to open a new thread for this.

I have been using arch under vmware which runs on my gentoo-server happily for a while, but today I made a mistake and updated perfectly working system, just in case. So now when I`m trying to run xorg-server-1.5.3-2 I can`t get my keyboard working. In the past there was some bug in vmmouse so I was using normal mouse driver in X. After update my keyboard and mouse stoped working. I managed to get mouse responding by changing it to use vmmouse driver, but my keyboard is still death. Keyboard works without any problems in console, but not under X. Any ideas are highly welcome.

n-a-g-r-o-m

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From: Joensuu, Finland

Registered: 2008-12-02

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Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

Okey, bit more careful reading of the logs and I managed to figure it out. x-server 1.5.3 has AllowEmptyInput as a default at least when hot-pluging is on. AllowEmptyInput disables all the devices using mouse or kbd driver, so I just needed to turn that off.

"ServerLayout" section requires line
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"

Haiyadragon

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Registered: 2006-03-21

Posts: 56

Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

AllowEmptyInput disables all the devices using mouse or kbd driver...

Why is this enabled by default? I had to hard reset three times after a clean install

Thanks for the solution!

n-a-g-r-o-m

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From: Joensuu, Finland

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 7

Re: vmware + archlinux + X = no keyboard, no mouse [solved]

There is even easier solution, just run hal before X. xorg-server 1.5 does input detections through hal, so it is required.