Arch Linux

Berticus

Member

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

[SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

I updated Xorg and it seems I can't use any of my input devices. I'm using a usb keyboard and usb mouse. When I type startx, none of the keys on my keyboard works and I can't move my mouse. This is what I have for my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver     "kbd"
    Option     "Autorepeat" "500 30"
    Option     "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option     "XkbModel" "microsoftelite"
    Option     "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver     "mouse"
    Option     "Protocol" "Auto"
    Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keybouard1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Admittedly, I could've picked a better XkbModel, but I doubt that's what's causing the problem since it seems a lot of people are having a similar problem. I would rollback to the older version, but I deleted it from the cache. I've disabling AutoAddDevices in the server flags, but that didn't do anything.

Last edited by Berticus (2008-12-03 12:43:15)

aqtrans

Member

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

I get the same exact problem!

FrozenFox

Member

From: College Station, TX

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 422

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

Have you tried installing xf86-input-evdev and using evdev as the driver for the input?

Berticus

Member

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

I have xf86-input-evdev installed. How do I know if I'm using it as a driver? I tried changing the driver parameter in both InputDevice sections to

driver "evdev"

and it still didn't work. It also appears to be loaded:

# lsmod | grep evdev
evdev             13984 0

Still doesn't work.

Rydgel

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 166

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

You have to remove your InputDevice sections

Berticus

Member

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg Update --- No input

Thanks, but sometime before my last post and your post it started working. Not exactly sure how, but this is the process I went in.

# /etc/rc.d/hal
# startx
# /etc/rc.d/hal stop
# /etc/rc.d/dbus stop

When I issued startx that time it worked, so I tried disabling hotplugging, used this as my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver     "kbd"
    Option     "Autorepeat" "500 30"
    Option     "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option     "XkbModel" "microsoftelite"
    Option     "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver     "mouse"
    Option     "Protocol" "Auto"
    Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keybouard1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

I issued startx again, and every worked. The only difference is the AutoAddDevices thing, which is odd because I tried that before... Oh well, works now.