Failure in detecting keyboard

[Amey]

Thanks Dan,
                  I configured the xserver with option '--enable-config-hal'
and it worked.


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Amey <amey1288 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Peter Hutterer
> >> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:17:12AM +0530, Amey wrote:
> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >>                I am a final year graduate student and I am trying to
> >> >> configure X server.In that when I tried to run X server after all the
> >> >> configuration done with following commands:
> >> >>
> >> >> *1) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> >> >> 2) sudo startx -- /opt/mpx/bin/Xorg verbose :0   (P.S. I installed
> all
> >> >> the
> >> >> packages with prefix /opt/mpx )
> >> >> *
> >> >> then X server didn't run initialy  and I got the following log:
> >> >>
> >> >> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /opt/mpx/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
> >> >> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
> >> >> (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211
> >> >> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> >> >> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> >> >> XKB: Failed to compile keymap
> >> >> Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect
> >> >> setup
> >> >> of xkeyboard-config.
> >> >
> >> > This is often the case if /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb/compiled/ doesn't
> exist
> >> > or
> >> > isn't writable. Check for that too.
> >> >
> >> >> For above error  I configured xkeyboard-config package with prefix
> >> >> /opt/mpx/
> >> >> and again tried to run X server with above sequence of  commands.But
> >> >> still
> >> >> error was there. So checked for "xkbcomp" in /opt/mpx then found it
> >> >> here:
> >> >>
> >> >> /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb
> >> >
> >> > this is weird, xkbcomp should not be in this directory. Please
> >> > reconfigure
> >> > with the right prefix and reinstall instead of the symlink.
> >> > that aside - is there any reason you disable hotplugging?
> >>
> >> This comes from some dubious behavior in xkeyboard-config. It creates
> >> a symlink to xkbcomp in the xkb base directory unless you pass a
> >> --disable-xkbcomp-symlink or something like that.
> >>
> >> Amey, just build xkbcomp with --prefix=/opt/mpx and make sure it uses
> >> a base path of /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb so it will pick up your config
> >> files. There should be a configure option if it doesn't just follow
> >> --prefix by default.
> >>
> >
> >             Thanks Dan, It worked by configuring xkbcomp package by
> > following the instructions you told.
> > But still I have one more problem which is of reattaching the master
> pointer
> > to plugged mouse i.e. slave device.
> >             When I used 'list' option of xinput command it shows some 2
> > virtual core pointers and one master ( that I created earlier by
> > 'create-master' option ) .For that I had configured lib-hal-dev package
> from
> > synaptics and also checked for dbus package so it ws already there so
> didn't
> > install again.But still when I plug in an usb mouse its not getting
> > recognised when I checked using 'list' option of xinput command.
> >
> > P.S. I have configured X server on ubuntu interpid-ibex.
>
> Possibly the server was not built with hal support for hotplugging. If
> you attach a Xorg.0.log, it should shed some light.
>
> --
> Dan
>



-- 
Thanks,
Amey.
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