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Aerodyne

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Registered: 2005-07-25

Posts: 43

Mouse & Keyboard not working...

Hi all,

I probably forgotten something in the configurations, when my login screen boots either KDE-mod or SLiM I lose my mouse & keyboard.
But if I "Alt + F2" my keyboard works on the command line?

xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"

# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Evdev Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver        "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "microsoft"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Evdev Mouse"
    Driver      "evdev"
    Option        "Name" "Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)"
    Option        "CorePointer"
EndSection

Mouse MS IntelliMouse Optical USB
Keyboard  MS Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 USB

TIA

Zer0

Member

From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

Does your keyboard work with these standard options?

# Keyboard
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" ""
    Option         "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

If your using KDE as your DE then you can set your keyboard type in
Control Center --> Regional & Accessibilty --> Keyboard Layout --> Keyboard model dropdown box
instead of using the xorg.conf if it's giving you problems.
Try the different Microsoft keyboards till you find one that works with your extra keys..

Aerodyne

Member

Registered: 2005-07-25

Posts: 43

Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately that did not work!

I can't log into KDE-mod at the moment, it does not pick up my mouse or keyboard on the login screen.

Zer0

Member

From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

Is it the login screen only?  What happens if your start x from the command line?  Give us the output if there are errors.

startx
or
startkde

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

Probably xorg.conf-related, although I've seen similar problems via Google related to udev.

What does your /var/log/xorg.log tell you? Any errors or warnings?

Anyway, first thing that I see is that you have no 'option "Device" "/dev/input/<insert correct input here>' in neither one of your input devices. Maybe you should specify the correct location of the input device...

Secondly, I thought that evdev is there to make life easier for those with USB input devices - might wanna try that one out instead of keyboard or kbd.

Zl.

Aerodyne

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Registered: 2005-07-25

Posts: 43

Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

The errors & warnings that I get:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module kbd
(II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
(EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported

(EE) No Input driver matching `kbd'
(EE) No Input driver matching `mouse'

(EE) fglrx(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler

Also several warnings about font files not existing...

In regards to the

Option    "Device"   "/dev/input/<insert correct input here>"

does this go in both mouse & keyboard? and what am I looking to add in?  Thanks.

I assume evdev works with the keyboard as well & not just the mouse?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working...

pacman -S xorg

That's the exact command you should have used for installing the most basic Xorg packages.

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