Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:46:41 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First, the problem is xorg, so take kde out of the loop. Look at the >> xorg config section and change ~/.xiinitrc > > In the meantime we have some new experiences: > > 1.) There are no differences in the behaviour of the desktop and the laptop ( > my wife's system ). After recompiling the kernel of the desktop ( it had not > been renewed since the LFS7 installation ) it does not function anymore, > exactly the same behaviour like the laptop > > 2.) In my own System I do not experience any problems. The difference to 1.) > is that I have the old Xorg and my wife the new one with the evdef driver. > So, it _could be_ that the problem concerns the new xorg > > 3.) We changed ~/xinitrc to xterm as you suggested and introduced > xkb-defaults.conf. There are keyboard and mouse availaible on the console > _before_ entering "startx". After startx, xterm shows up but no > keyboard/mouse are functioning ( wired mouse/trackball ) > After the startx command, the directory "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" contains two > new files, "10-evdev.conf" and "11-keyboard.conf" and the original > "xkb-defaults.conf" is away. > > 4.) I reviewed the kernel's config of the failing laptop and it is exactly > the same like the one of my working laptop. I could not see anything wrong. > > 5.) some final lines of Xorg.0.log: > ------------------- > 9428.142] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0 > [ 9428.143] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203 > [ 9428.793] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) > [ 9428.794] (II) config/udev: Adding input device TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint > (/dev/input/mouse0) > [ 9428.794] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) > ------------------ > The driver "evdev" is not mentioned, neither in Xorg.0.log nor in dmesg.
This is what my test system has: http://pastebin.com/rAH62sLN For input, start looking around lines 458-end. Notice that I have Xorg in /opt: [ 4027.187] (II) Loading /opt/xorg/lib/X11/modules/input/evdev_drv.so Maybe this can give you something to compare to what you have. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
