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Hey guys,
I'm experiencing an extremely annoying problem for a couple of days already:
After an update via Pacman -Syu my XFCE4 GUI was broken. Keyboard and mouse are dead now, no chance to escape from the broken environment except hammering in a hard reset via reset button. I suspected the problem to be linked with X.org, so I tried to understand what happened and to modify xorg.conf, but this didn't change anything. What's worse is that I don't want to throw a hard reset onto my poor machine each and every time I try a new config.
I decided to save my /home partition and start a new installation, which is now ready (x86-64 on an Athlon X2, via ftp install). A quick try with xorgcfg -textmode showed the same result: X comes up, keyboard and mouse are dead. What's happening here?!!!
It's pretty hard for me to keep calm, since my workstation is down for days now - after a simple update. This is annoying enough to steer me away from Arch, even though I made quite some noise among my buddies to check this distro. Once I was convinced, but that's heavily damaged. Even if the bug or error or whatever causes this problem can be pinned down to X.org - I just can't run a productive system on a distro that can be broken by a simple update.
I appreciate your quick help, many thanks in advance!
Until soon,
Axel
Edit: I can switch on or off Num Lock, so the kbd should be ok. It works perfectly with bash. My graphics card is a Matrox G550, I therefor use the xf86-video-mga driver. [SOLVED
Last edited by axl (2008-12-13 23:08:45)
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Sorry, guys! I solved it by following this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60752
Now I'm a happy Arch user again.
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...problem can be pinned down to X.org - I just can't run a productive system on a distro that can be broken by a simple update.
It's not broken, X simply works differently now that hotplugging is enabled by default. See the xorg input hotplugging wiki article.
Bob
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You're right, Bob.
Obviously I ran a system without dbus, and this caused the problem after the update. I'm no longer disturbed about the quality of Arch, I think this is just another step on my learning curve.
Thanks to you all for the great work!
Axel
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