[SOLVED] Xserver, no mouse, no keyboard

lalebarde · Last edited by lalebarde on Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:41 pm; edited 1 time in total

EDIT : cf post of June 5th 2011 page 2 : I have used a backup and re-do all upgrades after having updated the toolchain with binaries from tinderbox.

Hi all,

After some upgrades :

I don't have anymore mouse nor keyboard under X.

Some checks :

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject:

lalebarde,

You seem to have done all the right things. Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file
That will tell what Xorg did when it started.

In your xorg.conf, comment out the lines

lalebarde · Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 6:30 am Post subject:

Thank you NeddySeagoon/

Here is /var/log/Xorg.0.log before your modifications : http://dpaste.com/hold/545203/

With the modification, I still don't have any mouse or keyboard working. I will post the file tonight.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 12:02 pm Post subject:

lalebarde,

lalebarde · Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 7:20 am Post subject:

New /var/log/Xorg.0.log (after modification of xorg.conf as suggested) : http://pastebin.com/J0yFCqW9

With no xorg.conf at all : http://pastebin.com/ZQH3BYe3

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:43 pm Post subject:

lalebarde,

Your first Xorg log looks reasonable, it uses evdev but the mouse and keyboard are never found.

Your second Xorg log (with no xorg.conf) shows a failure to find a suitable graohics driver. Thats expected if you only have nvidia-drivers installed as the auto configuration will not try binary blobs. To get further with this, do

lalebarde · Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your deep answers.

v_andal · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 541 Location: Germany

Hm. When you started X without configuration, then it didn't find quite a lot of extensions that it normally should find since they are
coming together with X (for example DRI2 and DRI). In my xorg.conf I have

lalebarde · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:03 am Post subject:

Thanks v_andal.

lalebarde · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 9:30 am Post subject:

Probably a udev vs hal issue..... I am following https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965.html : "Tips, and tricks for ConsoleKit/PolicyKit/udev, without hal"

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

lalebarde,

If you try to use both udev and hal, Xorg will use udev.
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lalebarde · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks NeddySeagoon. So applying "Tips, and tricks for ConsoleKit/PolicyKit/udev, without hal" should not solve my problem. I am emerge-uND-ing and emerge -ND system and world. It is long and tedious since I have had not updated for 6 months. I hope that when everything will be up to date, it will work.

DONAHUE · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject:

if still using nvidia-drivers I'd suggest nvidia-xconfig to generate xorg.conf, test/troubleshoot it with the default us keyboard, then add the section for french keyboard.
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lalebarde · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 9:18 am Post subject:

lalebarde · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 12:37 pm Post subject:

Of course, I re-emerged after the drivers, like I did it earlier in this post, and tryed with/without mouse ans keyboard device definition in xorg.conf.
I still miss mouse and keyboard in X11. Since I cannot switch to the interractive mode at boot, I suppose I have no keyboard nor mouse at all.
I really don't know what to do now to have it work :cry:

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This may be of interrest :

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject:

lalebarde,

Please post your full kernel .config file on a pastebin site.
wgetpaste is your friend.
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lalebarde · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject:

My problem seems to be a crash of dbus at boot.

lalebarde · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject:

lalebarde · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 8:52 am Post subject:

Shall I emerge hotplug and coldplug and rc-update add coldplug boot, rc-update add hotplug default ?
EDIT : as far as I read, the answer is no. coldplug seems necessary only for old kernels, and hotplug if 'General setup --->Support for hot-pluggable devices' is not set in the kernel.

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

your kernel is more than old, i think you are facing : 2.6.30-tuxonice-r6
1 - udev don't expect such an old kernel
2 - openrc won't like that too
3 - missing devtmpfs

it's been a long time that kernel wish default shm and tmpfs, an udev/kernel and kernel-headers should always stay close to each others. I'm not sure if openrc is the first one that need that feature, but there's time when change should be apply and user should make the choice: apply changes and update software or block change and keep old version. But it's always going to a dead end apply some change and not updating something, it might work for some times with the transition, until devs decide they have wait more than enough and force everyone to make the choice. Same effect with deprecated things, might work for some times, until someone decide it wait enough and remove it.

time to upgrade kernel lalebarde

lalebarde · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks krinn,
I agree with you. So I have updated to linux-2.6.37-tuxonice, rebuild modules, x11-drivers, checked I copied it in /boot, updated grub, boot on the new kernel, ..... and it changes nothing : no keyboard nor mouse working :cry:

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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

can we get that xorg.log to see what is going on ?

lalebarde · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:08 pm Post subject:

Sure, /var/log/Xorg.0.log : http://pastebin.com/A4hJWbJc

Other information :
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

lalebarde · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject:

and always :

v_andal · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 541 Location: Germany

Strange, that you have udev both in sysinit and in default levels. On my machine it is only in sysinit. Also, according to Xorg log, you don't have any mouse or keyboard. At least Xorg finds only "power button", no other input. How many files do you have in /dev/input directory?