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Xorg

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Registered: 2011-12-22

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Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

Hello all,

I have a Dell laptop D630.  I have been having troubles to get the keyboard and touchpad to work while running X Window.  Followed the Beginner'sGuide, not sure what am I missing.  I have been working on this for 2 days.  After successfully installed Arch, I have done the following:

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics
pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard (not sure if this is needed, but throw it in anyway)
pacman -S xorg-server
pacman -S xorg-apps

When tried 'startx', I have the screen with couple of terminals open.  Mouse and keyboard does not seem to work (Caps Lock and all show no movements).  Please tell me what am I missing or did I install the wrong driver for my input device.

I noticed that xorg.conf file is not under /etc/X11/ or /etc/.  However, I do have a folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with 4 files in it (include the xf86-input-synaptics file).
Also when I tried to run "setxkbmap dvorak" as in instruction, I received "Cannot open display "default display"".

Any helps would be much appreciated!

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

Probably a dumb question but you don't mention whether you did:

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils
pacman -S xf86-input-evdev

You only mention installing one of those?

Last edited by cfr (2011-12-22 03:53:58)

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Xorg

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Re: Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

Thank you for your reply.  I only installed xorg-server.  I will install others and will update results.

Thanks!

Xorg

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Registered: 2011-12-22

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Re: Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

I tried to install and reinstalled couple of the packages above, still having same problem touchpad and keyboard are not working while X running.

Please help

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

I would try removing xf86-input-keyboard in case that is interfering with evdev.

Where are you typing the commands? Does the keyboard not work at all in X?

Try using xev to see what the server thinks is going on when you click/type etc. or if it isn't registering the input at all.

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Xorg

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Re: Dell Latitude D630 - problems installing KDE with Arch

Removed xf86-input-keyboard and just run evdev, got same result.  Keyboard does not work at all once X has been started, not even capslock.  I can type commands in CLI prior to 'startx'.  Another weird problem I have is if I update Arch with up-to-date packages (pacman -Syu), after reboot I got a blank screen.  Does anyone have problems latest Arch update on Latitude D630?