On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:27 PM, James Tyrer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that this is a temporary account and I am temporary running on a
> Fedora 15 CD till I get my new Linux from scratch system to work. I
> need help.
>
> X.Org X Server 1.14.0
>
> I think that I followed the instruction and this is not the first time
> I have built the X11 server. I started building XFree86. Everyting
> appeared to go OK but when I started it for the first time with
> "startx" it opened with TWM and looked OK but the mouse and the
> keyboard didn't work. A google search reveals that others have the
> same problem but I didn't really see the solution to the problem.
>
> X is installed with PREFIX=/usr/X11R7 Which is where I installed it
> last time although on a different disk.
>
> I checked the X log. The module path appears correct:
>
> [ 35004.515] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules"
>
> The configure file for the mouse: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse-0.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "evdev"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Name" "Logitech M100"
> EndSection
>
> looks OK, but the X log reports:
>
> [ 35012.524] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB
> Optical Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
> [ 35012.524] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
>
> and the mouse and the keyboard simply do not work with X although they
> work fine in text mode.
>
Problem resolved. I found a archived email on line that pointed out
that there is also a Linux Kernel EvDev Driver. It appears that I was
missing it. Now that I find this, it was the only possible and the
obvious answer since I did everything the same and it didn't work.
What I didn't do was compile a new driver into the Kernel. Perhaps it
would be worth mentioning in the BLFS book that it is needed.
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