[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-18 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com [17/08/09 00:24]: once I had a problem like this, and I solved it by adding the following section to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInputfalse EndSection it happened earlier this year when I upgraded x11-base/xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-17 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 08/17, Dale wrote: === So, another possible cause dealt with. Still watching for others tho. === Any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-17 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 08/17, Dale wrote: === So, another possible cause dealt with. Still watching for others tho. === Any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Keith Dart It has been a while since I tried it but I don't recall anything in there. I need to try this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 08/15, Dale wrote: === Have you tried emerging xorg-server with hal disabled? That is assuming you are using the 1.5 or 1.6 version. === FYI, I am using the latest X server with hal enabled and the evdev input driver and it all works fine. -- Keith Dart -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 08/15, Dale wrote: === Have you tried emerging xorg-server with hal disabled? That is assuming you are using the 1.5 or 1.6 version. === FYI, I am using the latest X server with hal enabled and the evdev input driver and it all works fine. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/16, Dale wrote: === Well, I had to disable hal on mine and so have a few others because hal doesn't work for us. I for example ended up with a GUI but no mouse or keyboard. So, just because something works for you does not mean it works for everybody else. Re-emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/16, Keith Dart wrote: === Try it, but it is probably something else. === BTW, another thing to try is to just comment out any input configuration in (e.g. for mouse or kbd driver) in your xorg.conf file. With hal/evdev it is now entirely automatic and having those in your

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz [16/08/09 19:00]: === On Sun, 08/16, Keith Dart wrote: === Try it, but it is probably something else. === BTW, another thing to try is to just comment out any input configuration in (e.g. for mouse or kbd driver) in your xorg.conf file. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/16, Moshe Kamensky wrote: === Thanks, but I tried that and it didn't help. On the other hand, I this time when I started X the problem is gone, so it seems that the problem is a bit random. === Gotta hate those gremlins with dice. ;-) If it happens again I have some tools that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: === On Sun, 08/16, Keith Dart wrote: === Try it, but it is probably something else. === BTW, another thing to try is to just comment out any input configuration in (e.g. for mouse or kbd driver) in your xorg.conf file. With hal/evdev it is now entirely

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: I just renamed xorg.conf to something else and tried it that way. It didn't like that either. I followed the guide on Gentoo.org and even tried a couple things people mentioned on this list but it still doesn't work. As soon as X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Crístian Viana
once I had a problem like this, and I solved it by adding the following section to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInputfalse EndSection it happened earlier this year when I upgraded x11-base/xorg-x11. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] Sent from Campinas, SP,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Dale
ABCD wrote: Dale wrote: I just renamed xorg.conf to something else and tried it that way. It didn't like that either. I followed the guide on Gentoo.org and even tried a couple things people mentioned on this list but it still doesn't work. As soon as X comes up, no mouse, no keyboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Dale
Crístian Viana wrote: once I had a problem like this, and I solved it by adding the following section to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInputfalse EndSection it happened earlier this year when I upgraded x11-base/xorg-x11. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [14/08/09 22:21]: On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote: There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted LMGTHFY: http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8oe=utf8q=Xorg%20dropping%20keyboard%20events

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Dale
Moshe Kamensky wrote: * Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [14/08/09 22:21]: On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote: There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted LMGTHFY:

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-15 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [15/08/09 09:30]: Have you tried emerging xorg-server with hal disabled? That is assuming you are using the 1.5 or 1.6 version. I'll try that, thanks. pgpLl0FkYmJuE.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-30, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote: After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes it's a keyup