[Solved] Keyboard and mouse stop working shortly after loading X

richardkemp · 2014-08-06 23:52:22

Today I put arch on my old Fujitsu ST5112. This device is a tablet - it has a built in wacom digitizer and no keyboard. This may well be relevant.

root can startx with no issues, my normal account can start it (I'm using xfce4) but within about 5 seconds after the UI loading, click and hover events stop happening. When I mouse over the taskbar it doesn't pop out, etc. Interestingly this is the case for both the wacom digitizer and a ms usb mouse. I can switch to another tty but as far as I can tell I can't do anything else from the keyboard.

I installed xf86-input-wacom for the digitizer, and I was messing around with rules in xord.conf.d to try and get it set up. However, even when I removed ALL rules from the folder (I have no xorg.conf) nothing actually changed. xinitrc is identical for my user and root, both are just 'exec startxfce4'.

users Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/2ZVJe2K1
root Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/a0TZphw0

Not sure if this is relevant, but these are the udev rules I copied from the xf86-input-wacom package. I modified one line to make the device accessible to all users. May have fixed previous issues, certainly not helped this one.

Any suggestions much appreciated!!

Last edited by richardkemp (2014-08-07 16:10:47)

Awebb · 2014-08-07 09:27:16

Why does root have an xinitrc?

richardkemp · 2014-08-07 09:45:31

Awebb wrote:

Why does root have an xinitrc?

Excellent question! I copied the one from my user folder into the root folder just to be sure the same thing was happening, for comparison's sake.

richardkemp · 2014-08-07 14:54:37

I have no idea what the issue was, but I solved it by creating a new user. I wondered if it was the fact that root user had enhanced priviledges that made the difference, or was it just that it was not my account. Turned out a brand new user worked fine, so since this was a new install I just deleted the broken profile. Please mark as solved.

Thanks for your contribution Awebb.

rebootl · 2014-08-07 15:17:18

Please mark as solved.

That's your duty, by editing your first post.

Awebb · 2014-08-07 16:02:37

That's what I thought. Running X as root must have messed up some settings.

richardkemp · 2014-08-07 16:13:49

For the record I was getting the issue before I tried to log in as root. I had been using xinput to try to get the wacom digitizer to control the mouse cursor, with little luck, I suspect I could have left some residual effects from that effort. In any case, a fresh user account works fine. Now to find a minimal, pen-friendly wm....

Awebb · 2014-08-07 16:23:47

Pen friendly? Try Openbox with a panel or Fluxbox.

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[Solved] Keyboard and mouse stop working shortly after loading X

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