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keltek

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Registered: 2017-01-08

Posts: 53

[SOLVED] Peripherals no longer working

After coming back to my computer after a few weeks away, I was able to use it just fine. I ran an update recently and then rebooted my computer an now my peripherals don't work when in X. To be clear, my installation boots to a command prompt and my keyboard works there but when I run startx it stops. There are errors reported in my xorg log as seen here http://ix.io/2L7d but I'm not sure what to make of them or how to fix them. If any other information would be useful, please just let me know.

Thanks!

Last edited by keltek (2021-01-07 01:09:16)

keltek

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Registered: 2017-01-08

Posts: 53

Re: [SOLVED] Peripherals no longer working

Not sure how this happened but it suddenly became a requirement that my account be in the "input" group and I wasn't. After adding myself to the input group, the permissions issues were resolved and now everything is working.

nd925a

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Registered: 2017-01-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Peripherals no longer working

Looks like a permissions error. I think it's not proper, but try running startx with sudo to see if that works.

This is old (and a couple other googlefu links), but it looks like reinstalling xorg-server might do the trick for you:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38633

Or double check all your config files to make sure nothing got messed up by the update.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Peripherals no longer working

How does your .xinitrc look like? Make sure you heed the notes in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc (... and the xserverrc as well FWIW) permissions should be handed out properly without groups as long as you start your session correctly.

keltek

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Registered: 2017-01-08

Posts: 53

Re: [SOLVED] Peripherals no longer working

My xinitrc hasn't changed since it was working last. If you'd like to have a look you can find it here https://github.com/Kyle-Thompson/dotfil … /X/xinitrc as well as other other scripts it calls.