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Greenek

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 12

Keyboard stopped working :(

My keyboard stopped working after update xorg-server. Everything works fine while booting, but when GDM appear I can't type nothing, even switch to console How I can fix it?

gondil

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Registered: 2008-05-25

Posts: 19

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

Try installing xf86-input-evdev. Also see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58533

gondil

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Registered: 2008-05-25

Posts: 19

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

Ok, while typing that answer, I was still having some problems with the configuration of my azerty-keyboard and evdev..
To solve it, I added some lines in my xorg.conf, in the InputDevice section.

It now looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "evdev"
    Option       "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"  #This is where my Acer 9500 keyboard resides..
    Option       "XkbModel" "evdev"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Good luck

Greenek

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 12

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

But how I can edit xorg.conf? GDM starts automatically and then I can't switch to console

Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

Boot from an arch cd and remove GDM from rc.conf?

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gondil

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Registered: 2008-05-25

Posts: 19

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

Or you can append "single" at the kernel line in GRUB (boot in single-user (root) mode)

Btw, I don't have an InputDevice-section anymore in my xorg.conf now since I read this nice blogpost about evdev.
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/07/input … shell.html

Last edited by gondil (2008-11-07 18:47:24)

Greenek

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 12

Re: Keyboard stopped working :(

Ok, while typing that answer, I was still having some problems with the configuration of my azerty-keyboard and evdev..
To solve it, I added some lines in my xorg.conf, in the InputDevice section.

It now looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "evdev"
    Option       "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"  #This is where my Acer 9500 keyboard resides..
    Option       "XkbModel" "evdev"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Good luck

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