xorg.conf.d not created? [SOLVED]

jbritton · 2011-03-15 06:28:20

Ok, I'm new to Arch from Ubuntu/Mint/Crunchbang. I'm sure that I'm missing something easy here but I can't seem to find any clue as to what.

I'm trying to get a working system going, and everything seems fine, but when I run startx or xinit to start xorg I have no functionality of my keyboard or mouse. I assumed that I could look in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ folder to see what was happening but the folder didn't exist. Is evdev not finding my hardware? I had the same result after I added the keyboard and mouse drivers as well.

Thanks!

Last edited by jbritton (2011-03-21 02:02:46)

sskeirik · 2011-03-15 06:38:32

Have you installed a window manager and/or desktop environment?

wojox · 2011-03-15 06:43:39

Did you install HAL and add it to your rc.conf?

DAEMONS=(dbus hal syslog-ng @alsa @wicd)

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mcmillan · 2011-03-15 06:46:16

I have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf owned by the xorg-server package. That should have been installed as part of the xorg group if you followed the instructions from the Beginner's Guide

Wojax - Hal is not needed for X any more

sskeirik · 2011-03-15 06:56:22

Note that the Beginner's Guide is slightly out of date with respect to the xorg packages as they were restructured quite recently. However, AFAIK, that shouldn't affect the creation of the xorg.conf.d folders (or if such an error did occur, pacman should be able to report it).

I had problems with a clean install earlier tonight, but the error was with xorg-font-utils. However, it's not impossible that something else got messed up during the restructure. Does anyone know more about what changed?

jbritton · 2011-03-15 07:02:01

sskeirik, not yet. I wanted to get xorg working first.

mcmillan, it seems that it is installed by that package. But if I go to /etc/X11 the xorg.conf.d folder doesn't exist. It seems that this is the problem, but I have no clue why it has not been created. From what I understand, it should be created automatically.

wojox · 2011-03-15 07:30:47

mcmillan wrote:

I have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf owned by the xorg-server package. That should have been installed as part of the xorg group if you followed the instructions from the Beginner's Guide
Wojax - Hal is not needed for X any more

I have the folder as well, but I needed hal. Maybe my boxes are to old?

mcmillan · 2011-03-15 17:25:23

jbritton wrote:

sskeirik, not yet. I wanted to get xorg working first.
mcmillan, it seems that it is installed by that package. But if I go to /etc/X11 the xorg.conf.d folder doesn't exist. It seems that this is the problem, but I have no clue why it has not been created. From what I understand, it should be created automatically.

I haven't looked too much into the xorg package changes, though I did take a look at the most recent xorg-server package and it seems to contain xorg.conf.d. If you've installed it and still don't have the directory and the evdev.conf and quirks.conf files that should be in there I'd suggest trying to reinstall that package (and other xorg stuff to be safe). Not sure what might have caused it in the first place though.

jbritton · 2011-03-16 01:14:51

Ok, so I reinstalled everything, and followed the new instruction in the Beginners Guide to install # pacman -S xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm

Same result. When I run startx or xinit, everything seems to go fine but I have no keyboard or touchpad functionality. I noticed that hal was installed as apart of this. Anyone have another suggestion? I checked in /etc/X11 and the xorg.conf.d folder is still missing.

mcmillan · 2011-03-16 02:15:06

jbritton wrote:

Ok, so I reinstalled everything, and followed the new instruction in the Beginners Guide to install # pacman -S xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm

Did you start at that part of the guide, or all the way back to the part that says:

Wiki wrote:

Install the base packages:
# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

The instructions for xorg-twm xorg-xclock and xterm were to give a really basic gui for testing X, but wouldn't pull in xorg-server which is what should give you xorg.conf.d and also pulls in the evdev driver as a dependency.

I noticed that hal was installed as apart of this. Anyone have another suggestion? I checked in /etc/X11 and the xorg.conf.d folder is still missing.

That part seems odd, could you be using an out of date mirror? The current version of the xorg-server package is 1.9.4.901-1

sand_man · 2011-03-16 03:18:31

wojox wrote:

mcmillan wrote:
I have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf owned by the xorg-server package. That should have been installed as part of the xorg group if you followed the instructions from the Beginner's Guide
Wojax - Hal is not needed for X any more
I have the folder as well, but I needed hal. Maybe my boxes are to old?

You probably needed dbus. hal starts dbus.

jbritton · 2011-03-16 12:27:02

That was a typo, I did install the following:

Install the base packages:

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

Then installed xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm

And dbus, which I added to the daemons and the rebooted.

It looks like the mirror was out of date, I'll see if that fixes it.

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tarakbumba · 2011-03-16 13:21:32

Do you have "xf86-input-evdev" package installed? If not please install and give feedback. Evdev package controls x input like keyboard and mouse...

jbritton · 2011-03-16 13:35:30

Turns out that it was the mirror. After a long set of updates, I reinstalled all of the xorg components (dbus and evdev too, just to be sure everything was there). After reboot I have working mouse and keyboard in xorg.

Thanks mcmillan for the solution and everyone else for the suggestions!

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jorg1 · 2011-03-16 13:37:42

Great, glad it worked out for you.

You should probably mark the thread as [SOLVED] :-)

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