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glenn69

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 125

No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

I have followed the beginners guide up to installing xorg and lxde.  Whwnever I run startx lxde opens, but I have no mouse or keyboard control.  I have HAL in daemons, I have installed evdev.  I have tried without an xorg.conf.    No luck. I have added
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection
No luck again.  Shouldn't that disable hotplugging?

I also tried
   Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
     Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
   EndSection
No luck.  I believe I have followed the install guide.  How do I figure out the problem?

Thanks

Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

You might try installing xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard

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chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection

This should be sufficient with xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard installed.

However, this should not be required.  Could you confirm dbus / hal are running?

glenn69

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 125

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard are installed already.  Verified with pacman -Qs
ps aux | grep dbus shows .....
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

ps aux | grep hal shows...
/usr/sbin/hald

chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

Odd.  Could you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, the output from 'lshal' and (if keyboard / mouse are connected via USB) 'lsusb'?

*david_a*

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 80

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

I had no mouse & no keyboard with LXDE, and I found out it was because I didn't have Openbox installed - you could check for that. Maybe LXDE should install Openbox automatically - but I guess it's omitted in order to allow users to choose their own window manager.

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: No Keyboard / mouse..why is this so hard??

Are your mouse&keyboard working if you do the basic X test as described in the Beginners' Guide?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … ethod_1.29

If yes, then verify that a WM is installed. When I installed LXDE, Openbox was not automatically installed and I had to do that manually.