Need help: Lost keyboard after xorg upgrade

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:45:16AM +0200, Michael wrote:
> GREAT!!
> 
> I got it working. The system was lacking "xserver-xorg-input-kbd" and 
> "xserver-xorg-input-mouse". I installed them and now, together with the 
> "AutoAddDevices" "Off", I have a working mouse and keyboard under X.
> 
> If I understand it correctly, I am now not using the "evdev" driver. This 
> does not seem to work correctly on this laptop (MSI Wind U100).
> 
> Now, can we fix the evdev driver or shall I stay with "AutoAddDevices" 
> "Off"?

can you run evtest against the keyboard's device files to see if they
correctly send key events as you type on the keyboard? I don't see any other
reason the evdev driver would stop sending events.

Cheers,
  Peter
 
> Thanks again for the help
> 
> Michael
> 
> Michael wrote:
> 
> > Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > 
> >>> Not sure if this is the same, but I tried using an xorg.conf file
> >>> (instead of default: no file):
> >>> 
> >>> Section "InputDevice"
> >>>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
> >>>         Driver          "kbd"
> >>>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
> >>>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
> >>>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
> >>>         Option          "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
> >>>         Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
> >>> EndSection
> >>> 
> >>> Section "InputDevice"
> >>>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
> >>>         Driver          "mouse"
> >>>         Option          "CorePointer"
> >>>         Option          "Buttons"               "3"
> >>> EndSection
> >> 
> >> Since 1.5 or so keyboard and mouse xorg.conf sections are ignored when
> >> you have hotplugging enabled to avoid duplicate devices. so this config
> >> has no effect.
> >> 
> >> Please try adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" to your server layout
> >> section. this disables hotplugging and forces the server to use a
> >> different driver. If that driver works, we can at least narrow down
> >> what's going on here because the log looks normal.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Peter
> > 
> > Thanks Peter.
> > 
> > I added the Option and now I have no keyboard and no mouse.
> > 
> > Looking at the Xorg.0.log this seems to be explained in these lines:
> > 
> > (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse
> > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> > (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)
> > (EE) No input driver matching `mouse'
> > (II) LoadModule: "kbd"
> > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module kbd
> > (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
> > (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
> > (EE) No input driver matching `kbd'
> > 
> > Now, either the driver names have changed or I have a problem in my
> > installation.
> > 
> > Full xorg.log is attached.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Michael
>