Do you have hal running when you start X? (/etc/rc.d/hal start) On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Having major probs after the upgrade to the latest X w/hotplugging. > > X starts, but keyboard and mouse are dead. The wiki page is really vague - > I'm not really sure what/how I'm supposed to configure to make this work. > It says I want to update the entries for things like input.xkb.layout, > input.xkb.variant, input.xkb.rules, input.xkb.model, input.xkb.options, etc. > in the 10-keymap.fdi file. But update them to what? I'm not sure what the > values should be. Also, that only explains keyboard. Why isn't mouse > working? > > Xorg.0.log tells me: > > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. > If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable > AllowEmptyInput. > > > I have these packages installed, and HAL running: > > xf86-input-evdev 2.0.7-1 > xf86-input-keyboard 1.3.1-1 > xf86-input-mouse 1.3.0-1 > xf86-video-ati 6.9.0-5 > xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0-2 > > > Also, I can't currently disable hotplugging, since I don't have an > xorg.conf file. (X has always been able to start fine without one; I > believe it uses its own stock/internal one.) Do I really need to go through > the pain of generating a conf file just to get this turned off??? There's > got to be SOME way to get this to work. > > Help appreciated! > > DR >