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YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

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Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

EDIT(2): Problem solved, check out thn81's post below.

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EDIT: My system was way out of date 'cause I was using a bad mirror. Now X doesn't start, but it does log correctly now:

http://dpaste.com/488540/

Original message below.
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I have an IBM SpaceSaver keyboard and an iHome USB laser mouse. I can start X, but the keyboard and mouse do nothing, and I have to do a hard reset every time I still don't have this problem solved. I do have nvidia, udev, xf86-input-keyboard, and xf86-input-mouse installed.

From Xorg.0.log.old (Xorg.0.log is empty):

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
    If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[...]
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
(II) UnloadModule: "nv"
(EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[...]
(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[...]
(II) VESA(0): <default monitor>: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz
(WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size
[...]
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "320x200" (no mode of this name)
(WW) VESA(0): No valid modes left. Trying less strict filter...
(II) VESA(0): <default monitor>: Using hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz
(II) VESA(0): <default monitor>: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz
(WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size
[...]
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialize context: unknown error (null)

Last edited by YAOMTC (2011-03-11 19:20:48)

Jebususu

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Registered: 2011-02-27

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Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

Please post your current xorg.conf

YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

There is none.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

Try installing xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-nv (or xf86-video-nouveau)

YAOMTC

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Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

No change.

YAOMTC

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Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

Update: The mirror I was using (umflint.edu) was way out of date. I've switched mirrors, and now one problem is solved -- Xorg actually logs stuff now.

http://dpaste.com/488540/

Though it crashes when I try to start it. I guess that's better than starting badly but not logging.

thn81

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Registered: 2009-08-27

Posts: 88

Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

Try (re)-installing the xorg-xkbcomp, xorg-xkbevd and xorg-xkbutils packages. I did a system upgrade yesterday and got the same error & crash. pacman.log claimed that these packages were installed but I couldn't find the files on my system afterwards. Something went wrong for me but I don't know what it was...
Reinstalling these packages, however, fixed the problem here.

YAOMTC

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Re: Keyboard and mouse not working in X / X crashes [SOLVED]

Thanks a lot, thn81! That solved my problem.