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user1391

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Registered: 2014-01-29

Posts: 8

[Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Hi all,

I ran my daily system update this morning as i usually do.
After a reboot, my keyboard no longer worked under GNOME.

Virtual Terminals work fine, also does the login via GDM.

On the desktop no key press was recognized, I couldn't even switch to a virtual terminal.
Logged out of GNOME, keyboard was back OK.

I manually downgraded all xorg-related stuff and I'm fine again.

Any idea?

Here's the relevant part of pacman.log

...
[2015-11-06 09:55] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.17.4-1 -> 1.17.4-2)
[2015-11-06 09:55] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.17.4-1 -> 1.17.4-2)
[2015-11-06 09:55] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.17.4-1 -> 1.17.4-2)
[2015-11-06 09:55] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xwayland (1.17.4-1 -> 1.17.4-2)
[2015-11-06 09:55] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2015-11-06 11:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syyu'
[2015-11-06 11:55] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2015-11-06 11:55] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2015-11-06 11:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U xorg-server-common-1.17.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xorg-server-1.17.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xorg-server-devel-1.17.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz xorg-server-xwayland-1.17.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server-common (1.17.4-2 -> 1.17.4-1)
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server (1.17.4-2 -> 1.17.4-1)
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server-devel (1.17.4-2 -> 1.17.4-1)
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server-xwayland (1.17.4-2 -> 1.17.4-1)
[2015-11-06 11:58] [ALPM] transaction completed

Last edited by user1391 (2015-11-10 12:23:16)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Over here, I have a package "xf86-input-evdev" installed. It was upgraded at the same time as xorg-server.

Bluesm@n

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From: Ingolstadt, Germany

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Me too. No input device under X at all. Version 1.17.4 is a real troublemaker.
The first package version was the reason that half of my Steam Library stopped working. Now the problem with keyboard and mouse.

MrKoala

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Registered: 2015-11-07

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Same here.

I got it working by installing xf86-input-mouse/xf86-input-keyboard and adding the following to a Xorg.conf.d file:

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
  Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
  Option "AutoEnableDevices" "False"
EndSection

This breaks the auto config of my touchpad but at least the keyboard is back.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,748

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

xf86-input-evdev is a dependency of xorg-server. Make sure it's up-to-date and you don't have some random version of it installed from the AUR or something.

MrKoala

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Registered: 2015-11-07

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Well, that was the problem. I completely forgot I had xf86-input-evdev-debounce instead of the official evdev.

Back to official before I figure out how to get the debounce patch working again.

OP, are you seeing anything like "No input driver specified, ignoring this device" in Xorg log?

Last edited by MrKoala (2015-11-07 17:10:41)

user1391

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Registered: 2014-01-29

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Same here.

Had, for some reason I can't even remember, installed the package xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint, which conflicted with the original.
Removed it, installed the official one and everything is fine again.

Thanks!

Last edited by user1391 (2015-11-10 12:22:48)

trevorg16

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Registered: 2015-11-12

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] No Keyboard under X after updating xorg-server to 1.17.4-2

Responded to wrong thread - sorry

Last edited by trevorg16 (2015-11-12 00:25:08)