No mouse, no keyboard in X

[walt]

On 03/17/2011 07:08 PM, jazzbo wrote:
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> walter s wrote:
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>> On 03/15/2011 06:46 PM, jazzbo wrote:
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>>> The Xserver doesn't find the mouse or keyboard unless keyboard and mouse
>>> are
>>> unplugged / plugged in.
>>
>> The X logfile should give you some messages about input devices when
>> the X server is starting up.  When you un-plug/re-plug the devices
>> you should see more log messages.  Also check dmesg to see if the
>> kernel is finding the mouse and keyboard during boot.
>>
>>
>
> I found this in the log.
>
> (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
> 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
> (WW) Disabling Mouse0
> (WW) Disabling Keyboard0

You probably still have the "mouse" and "kbd" drivers in your xorg.conf
something like this::

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
         Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Mouse0"
         Driver      "mouse"

You should delete those InputDevice sections completely because newer
Xorg servers don't need them.  The "evdev" input driver finds the mouse
and keyboard without any configuration.

You can remove the "mouse" and "kbd" drivers from your machine, too,
as they've been replaced by "evdev".