USB keyboard does not work when Xorg server starts

Juergen Beisert juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de
Sun Jun 17 08:47:15 PDT 2007


On Monday 11 June 2007 21:42, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> curious problem: Attached to my terminal is an USB keyboard. Regular
> consoles are working when I load kernel's USB and USB hid support. But
> there is no keyboard input possible when I start the xorg server while the
> usbhid kernel module is allready loaded.
> When I start the xorg server without the usbhid kernel module loaded, and
> loading this module via telnet in the background while the xorg server is
> up and running, I can use this keyboard without any problem in my current X
> session. Any idea?

Maybe it could help others: It was a udev issue. Some rules to handle usb 
devices where missing. After adding the rules the usb keyboard now works as 
expected.

Juergen



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