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playdafunkimuzic

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of arch on my laptop as I had been experimenting with all different WM's and DE's and wanted a fresh install with openbox. Last time around, January or so, I just had to install the xf86-input-evdev and all was well. Now I have hal started, evdev installed, and no mouse or keyboard. No x in the middle either. Using nvidia graphics driver. What is the solution?

skottish

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Are you using an xorg.conf file? Are you getting any errors in the X log?

playdafunkimuzic

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Well I keep having to do a hard reboot and theres no var/log/Xorg.0.log or anything =/

skottish

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

On my system (nVidia) it's necessary to have a xorg.conf file. I generate it with nvidia-xconfig then remove everything that doesn't have to do with the screen. If I don't, X never starts. Although I do get some feedback watching the screen fail to find suitable refresh rates.

You may want to post which GPU model that you have.

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playdafunkimuzic

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Oh, I misread that....of course I have an xorg.conf. If I run startx, I get xterm and everything is fine. Mouse + keyboard work. If I use X nothing happens besides the NVIDIA flash screen. I'm using the geforce go 6150. Is this okay, then?

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Oh, I misread that....of course I have an xorg.conf.

It didn't work without one? You might check to make sure your devices are being properly detected by HAL, with the hal-device command. Do you get graphics in X, but just no working input?

playdafunkimuzic

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

Everything is fine for whatever reason, startx will work with mouse + keyboard, openbox will too. However, just running the command X I get black screen, no mouse'keyboard.

decaren

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Registered: 2009-04-17

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Re: HAL/hotplugging/X/mouse/keyboard Questions

I've gone through 5 installs of Arch Linux on 5 different machines from laptops to desktops, everytime after I install xorg and make the xorg.conf, when I try to test X I get nothing but a blank screen.  I can still change to another console and kill the process.  But I found out the hard way 1 x is working because when I do a startx (with exec xterm in .xinitrc) it starts and I have a mouse and keyboard and 2 that the CTRL-ALT-BKSP fix is really handy.  The latest xorg disabled it so just add Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection to your xorg.conf and you get your CTRL-ALT-BKSP back

By the way, I'm installing Arch on all 6 of my machines now that I've "seen the light"  ARCH ROCKS!!!:D

Last edited by decaren (2009-04-20 05:35:45)