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sinqbad

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Registered: 2016-01-27

Posts: 28

[solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

I was having problems with Xorg so I deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf and was able to startxfce4 from tty again. When it restarted I was unable to use the mouse/trackpad and keyboard/external keyboard. I rebooted the system and lightdm greeter works. However like before neither keyboard nor trackpad/mouse work, the clock is still working in lightdm so it's not completely frozen. Can't even ctrl+alt+f2 to tty. Right now chroot'd and trying to update the system but

systemctl start netctl-auto

outputs

Running in chroot, ignoring request

, so I can't connect to the internet. What should be next?

Last edited by sinqbad (2016-06-22 06:39:51)

alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

You cannot change systemd setting from live cd.
Does both internal and external keyboards and mice are frozen?

sinqbad

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Registered: 2016-01-27

Posts: 28

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

Yes, I've tried the internal keyboard and 2 working keyboards. and the same with two mouses/trackpad. Grub works with the keyboard.

alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

Disable X from starting up and see if you keyboard is functioning.

sinqbad

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Registered: 2016-01-27

Posts: 28

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

From chroot I ran

systemctl disable lightdm

so lightdm would be disable and I would boot to tty. It was successful. Booted to tty1 and the keyboard is working. Running startxfce4 works but the keyboard and mouse still don't work there, which seems that Xorg is the problem.

Updating the system with

sudo pacman -Syy

doesn't fix the problem.

Last edited by sinqbad (2016-06-22 06:23:51)

sinqbad

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Registered: 2016-01-27

Posts: 28

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

Solved by reinstalling xf86-input-keyboard/mouse and reinstalled xf86-input-evdev

cjazz

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Registered: 2009-03-12

Posts: 47

Re: [solved] Deleted xorg.conf keyboard and mouse no longer working

Updating the system with

sudo pacman -Syy

doesn't fix the problem.

FYI, that command does not in any sense update your system.