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shak

Member

Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

can't recognize keyboard and mouse

Hi archers!

I have finally installed archlinux after using some time (not much ) ubuntu . I've managed to install nvidia and my desktop environment gnome .

I have a notebook asus z7100 . The problem is that my keyboard and mouse are not recognized .

For keyboard i have the following at xorg.conf:

...............
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

My mouse is a usb mouse :
At the section ServerLayout i have

InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
The rest is left as it was, /dev/input/mice .

I've managed to get the touchpad working and the nvidia is working as well . Another question i have because i have edited the /etc/inittab to start gdm , how can i change it so that i can modify the xorg.conf file ? When i get to the gdm window i can't do anything with the keyboard because it's not recognized , so i'm stuck there .
Also is it normal that the screen is not recognized and i can't see any resolutions in xorg.conf file ?

Thanks for all your help and time reading this , and i would  be grateful if anyone could help me out

Thanks again

Last edited by shak (2009-03-16 11:23:59)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: can't recognize keyboard and mouse

You can boot to runlevel 3 (hit "e" at the grub prompt and add "ro 3" at the end of your kernel line).  Then install hal and add it to you DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf.

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