No keyboard

[MagicITX]

On 2/16/06, Aivils Stoss <aivils at unibanka.lv> wrote:
> On Ceturtdiena, 16. Februāris 2006 12:57, MagicITX wrote:
> > > > This is driving me just a little nuts. My keyboard doesn't work under
> > > > xorg 7. It works fine in the console. Once or twice it worked in X
> > > > and one time it worked for one keystroke then quit. There is nothing
> > > > in any logs that give a hint of a problem. Here's the relevant
> > > > section of my xorg.conf:
> > > >
> > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > > Identifier "Keyboard1"
> > > > Driver "kbd"
> > > > Option "CoreKeyboard"
> > > > Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> > > > Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> > > > Option "XkbLayout" "latin"
> > > > # Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > I've tried many configuration. Here's some of my Xorg.0.log:
>
> xorg 7.0 have 3 keyboard drivers. May be another is lucky?
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Keyboard1"
>         Driver  "keyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Keyboard1"
>         Driver  "evdev"
> Device "/dev/input/eventXX"
> # look into /proc/bus/input/devices and replace XX with
> # keyboard event file
> EndSection
>
> I think that is gentoo bug.
>
> Aivils
>

Ok, this works.  For the record here is what I needed to do.

#emerge xf86-input-evdev

Then modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Keyboard1"
  Driver  "evdev"
  Option "Device"  "/dev/input/event0"
  ... other keyboard options
EndSection

On my system /dev/input/event0 was the keyboard.  You can verify this
by entering:

#cat /dev/input/event0

then typing on the keyboard.  Press ctrl-c to exit.

Thanks Aivils!

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Tim
www.magicitx.com