On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:54:25 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> > > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this
> > command instead (as root with X started):
> >
> > lsof $(find /dev/input/)
>
> Thanks. Starting in normal multi-user mode, having removed gdm,
> logging in as a normal user, starting X ("startx") with a .xinint
> consisting of "chvt 1" and "xterm", login in as root, run the above
> "lsof" gives:
>
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> hald-addo 3640 root 4r CHR 13,69 5677 /dev/input/event5
> hald-addo 3640 root 5w CHR 13,68 5671 /dev/input/event4
> hald-addo 3640 root 6r CHR 13,67 5567 /dev/input/by-path/../event3
> hald-addo 3640 root 7r CHR 13,66 5589 /dev/input/by-id/../event2
It would be good if someone with a working Xorg keyboard on Lenny could
tell us if it is normal that this command does not show any /dev/input/
files opened by Xorg. On Sid, even with Xorg now relying on HAL for the
input devices, I still see /usr/bin/X11/X hanging on to both mouse and
keyboard device nodes.
> > > > Another thing to check is if certain processes are running:
> > > >
> > > > ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev'
> >
> > [ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ]
> >
> > Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus?
>
> Multi user mode. I think dbus is running? Isn't it the dbus-daemon?
[...]
> 103 2832 1 0 08:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
I had overlooked that line in your previous listing. I have one more
dbus-daemon process running, as well as a "dbus-launch" process
associated with x-session-manager, but that might simply be a normal
difference between Lenny and Sid. (Again, it might help if another Lenny
user posts his/her output of the above command for comparison.)
[...]
> > Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD
> > (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)?
>
> Running debian 5.0.0 live amd64 gnome ISO image, all seems to be
> working just fine.
OK, at least that means your problem is not intrinsic to your hardware
and Lenny's version of Xorg, and we have narrowed it down to the
configuration of your installation. (For an unfortunately still somewhat
broad definition of "to narrow down"...)
IIRC, you already mentioned that the problem stays the same if you start
X as root, which makes it less likely that a configuration file in your
normal user's $HOME is to blame. You could create a new user and test X
again, just to be sure.
To tackle a system-wide problem with Xorg: Do you remember anything
unusual, any problems during the upgrade, any packages that had to be
kept back? Do you recall anything in the history of the system that
might be related to the present problem, e.g. installing ill-behaved
non-Debian packages or messing around with udev rules?
Furthermore, it might help to take a look at your complete xorg.conf (if
it is very long then you can put it on http://debian.pastebin.com/ and
post the link), as well as the output og this command:
ldconfig -pNX | grep /local/
The brute-force approach to hard-to-pin-down, system-wide problems with
X is to remove (with "--purge") all xorg packages and reinstall them.
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Florian |
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