> Hi, > > while installing a new system from ground up on my new harddisc > I came accross a silly problem: > > I have setup X and slim as login manager. I installed openbox > (no kde/gnome) as session manager. > > Slim starts...and: The keyboard and the mouse are not responding... > > Same happens when I start plain X as root. Screen remains black > and I have to use the sysreq-keys to get my box back to normal... > > The X-logfile shows as only Error, that the GLX-module could not be > found. > > I am using nvidia-drivers and reinstalled them as adviced but the > effect remains the same. > > hald is running. fonts are installed (at least the default ones). > > Also installed are: > x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev Generic Linux input driver > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard Keyboard input driver > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse X.Org driver for mouse input devices > > eselect opengl set nvidia is done. > > What is missing? Why dies this not work (my old system running on > the same hardware using the same setup in principle has no problem > at all with X/Openbox. > > Why does X only half??? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards, > mcc > Are your keyboard and mouse "InputDevice"s in xorg.conf configured to use the evdev driver, and does your "ServerLayout" section contain InputDevice lines to correctly point to those devices? I have had some weird problems with slim, but never trouble like you describe with plain X/twm.
-Dru
