Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (223 mails)

[Matthias Hopf <mhopf@xxxxxxx>]

On Jun 05, 08 01:59:49 +0100, R.M. Thomas wrote:
> From the character-based console in Ubuntu's "recovery mode" I set 
> "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xorg_git/lib" and then ran "startx -- 
> /opt/xorg_git/bin/Xorg".  I got a sensible display (xterm under fvwm as 
> specified in .xinitrc) but this display would not accept any input from 
> keyboard or mouse.  I could, however, drop back to the character-based 
> console with Ctrl-F1 as usual.

The strange thing is, the server doesn't even *try* to load mouse and
keyboard. Which is weird, because I thought the newer Xserver autoload
everything necessary...

> X.Org X Server 1.5.99.1

Did I miss something there? master is at 1.4.99 something.

> Release Date: 5 September 2007

This doesn't look a recent Xserver. Did you get the right sources? Maybe
a wrong branch?

> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>       Driver          "kbd"
>       Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>       Option          "XkbLayout"     "gb"
>       Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver          "mouse"
>       Option          "CorePointer"
> EndSection
[...]
> Section "ServerLayout"
>       Identifier      "Default Layout"
>       screen          "Default Screen"

Missing

  InputDevice  "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"

here for older Xservers that don't autoload these.

Matthias

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