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YodaEmbedding

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Registered: 2021-10-13

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[SOLVED] xf86-input-libinput 1.2.0 not recognizing keyboard/mouse

Problem: With X server display (e.g. sddm or launching i3 directly), neither keyboard nor mouse respond. Attempting to switch to a tty via Ctrl-Alt-F2 does nothing, either. WIthout X server display, keyboard input works correctly, so the problem is directly related to the new package version, xf86-input-libinput 1.2.0.

Workaround: Downgrading back to xf86-input-libinput 1.1.0 fixes the issue temporarily, though it is a ticking time bomb...

Question: How do I get xf86-input-libinput 1.2.0 to detect input?

Last edited by YodaEmbedding (2021-10-26 19:42:09)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] xf86-input-libinput 1.2.0 not recognizing keyboard/mouse

xorg log? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Can you ssh into the system?
Do the devices then still produce input on "libinput debug-events"?

xf86-input-libinput was bumped ~1 month ago… is your system fully upated (except for xf86-input-libinput)?
Which kernel do you run?

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YodaEmbedding

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Re: [SOLVED] xf86-input-libinput 1.2.0 not recognizing keyboard/mouse

Solution: ensure the latest libinput is installed...!

Apparently, I had installed libinput-multiplier from the AUR which I forgot to update. Thus, updating to the latest version of anything that provides libinput solves everything.

For reference, /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

[     6.625] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "libinput keyboard catchall"
[     6.625] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
[     6.625] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
[     6.629] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so: /usr/lib/libinput.so.10: version `LIBINPUT_1.19' not found (required by /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so)
[     6.629] (EE) Failed to load module "libinput" (loader failed, 0)
[     6.629] (EE) No input driver matching `libinput'
[     6.629] (II) Falling back to input driver `libinput'
[     6.633] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so