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Kei

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Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 88

[SOLVED] Keyboard and mouse don't work in X11

Hi everybody,

I just installed ArchLinux on my desktop. I copied the xorg.conf file from another distribution (suse11.1), where it works fine. When I run X -config xorg.conf or startx, I get a beautiful screen, but my mouse and my keyboard are shut down or something. No LEDs are on, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or ...-DEL doesn't do anything.

Since the harware on/off switch of my computer doesn't result in a shutdown, I assume, that the system is frozen at that time. (Does Archlinux provide ACPI by default?)

I tried to use a fresh xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure" but this results in the same failure.

So it could be anything... Please help me where to start (:

Installed: Base, Xorg and nvidia (6600GT), pacman -Syu

Last edited by Kei (2009-02-02 09:31:23)

xisal

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Registered: 2007-10-19

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard and mouse don't work in X11

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging

Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard and mouse don't work in X11

You need HAL these days for Xorg (or disable input hotplugging):

# pacman -S hal
# /etc/rc.d/hal start

Then start X again

Kei

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Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard and mouse don't work in X11

Thank you, I didn't stumble upon the wiki article.. Now I'm happy again (: