startx freezes keyboard and trackpad on Asus EEEPC 1000HE

SkaraBrae · 2011-04-22 23:51:53

Dear all,

This is my first time posting in these forums since this is the first time I haven't found the answer already on the forum. The amazing level of support on these boards is one of the key reasons Arch is my distro of choice, so THANK YOU to the community for having such awesome documentation.

Now, on to my problem. I'm sure I'm just missing something in a configuration file here, but my trackpad and keyboard freeze when I startx. Everything worked fine until I did a pacman -Syu a few days ago. Actually, it worked fine after that too -- until sometime after I installed samba and g2sc, actually. I know X isn't hung because I have conky on my desktop, and it's merrily updating live. The only way I can regain control is to use SysRq+R to open tty2 and kill the openbox process manually.

I'm sure there's something obvious I'm missing, since I'm a Linux n00b. I'd very much appreciate it if someone could point me to the right resource so I can solve my own problem.

Detailed info (Please let me know if you need anything more):

Asus EEE PC 1000HE with Intel Mobile 945GME Express integrated graphics controller
Initially set up X using the guide here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_1000HE
hal is in my rc.conf daemons list.
xrandr returns "Can't open display"

copy of .xinitrc:

#exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session   <-- This worked before the update.
#ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session          <--  Input froze.
#exec dbus-launch openbox-session                       <--  Input froze.
exec openbox-session                                    <--  Input froze.
exec nitrogen --restore

copy of grep "(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (There are no EE lines)

The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
Disabling Mouse0
Disabling Keyboard0
Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

What tty1 shows after I startx:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"

Importing pynotify failed, notifications disabled.
Has notifications support False
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
real transparency off.... depth: 24
displaytray True
Done loading.
xRandr: Found crtc's: 2
xRandr: Linking output LVDS1 with crtc 1
(and then a bunch of stuff from openbox, tint2, and conky that doesn't seem relevant)

What I've already done:
0. Searched web, wiki, and forums.
1. Uninstalled samba, g2sc, and smbclient.
2. reinstalled xf86-input-synaptics and xf86-video-intel
3. Install pyxdg and xdg-autostart, since startx used to complain about them not being installed.
4. Adjust the .xinitrc in various ways as listed above, testing each. Wholly unsuccessful.

What am I missing?

jasonwryan · 2011-04-22 23:57:29

This thread details what others have done - including my fix for my EeePC 901. It is pretty straightforward...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115196

SkaraBrae · 2011-04-23 01:30:44

1. I do have a 10-synaptics.conf. When I renamed xorg.conf to "delete" it, I get this:

(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 53: xclock: command not found

Had to kill the user from tty2 as root

2. My 10-synaptics.conf already says: MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"

3. comment out all sections of xorg.conf except the Files section. Same failed to load fbdev module

4. I have no Server-Flags section in xorg.conf

I'm going to monkey around with the contents of 10-synaptics.conf, copying over/uncommenting one section from xorg.conf at a time, and see what happens...

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#1 2011-04-22 23:51:53

startx freezes keyboard and trackpad on Asus EEEPC 1000HE

#2 2011-04-22 23:57:29

Re: startx freezes keyboard and trackpad on Asus EEEPC 1000HE

#3 2011-04-23 01:30:44

Re: startx freezes keyboard and trackpad on Asus EEEPC 1000HE

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