On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 14:56 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > > On 26/02/2016 21:21, Pat Barnes wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have just built XORG 7.7using BLFS-systemd development version > >> 02-24-2016. The LFS version is systemd-7.9-rc2. > >> > >> I built the XORG system and build the event driver including all of its > >> dependencies and the Nouveau driver. I brought up the X-Windows desktop > >> using startx. The video works fine and I get the desktop with 5h3 three > >> X terms, the clock, etc. However, neither the mouse nor the keyboard > >> work. I had to kill startx from an ssh session to shutdown the X-Windows > >> desktop, This rang a bell. My first though was that one of devices had a > >> security problem, but when I used root to bring up X-windows, I got the > >> same result. I then used Google and found the problem described for > >> Arch-Linux (my usual go-to for configuration when I'm bringing up > >> software not described by LFS/BLFS). This gave me the answer. I needed > >> the event driver configuration > >> file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf] > >> > >> Since I was building this sytem from a BLFS-systemd-7.8 system (kinda > >> since that was/is only in the current development branch), I had an > >> existing file that I had gotten before and adding it to my new system > >> fixed the problem. > >> > >> The comment that starts the files is that its necessary for any > >> udev-based system. > >> > >> So, while my problem is solved, I think the book needs to be updated to > >> supply such a file or at least instructions for creating that file. > >> > > > > I usually use the config file shipped with the evdev driver and > > automatically > > installed as /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (with just one > > modification for the French keyboard) and it works. Did you have to change > > that file and install another one? > > I don't need the 10-evdev.conf file. If you look at the Xorg log, it says > it cannot load the evdev_drv.so file. For me it is at > /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so, but the system could not > find the libraries that it needs. A simple ldconfig fixed that. You did > update /etc/ld.so.conf, right? > > Look at the first note: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/xorg-config.html > > -- Bruce >
[red-faced] ... No, I didn't update ldconfig. I will do so (as the book says) in the future. Thanks for your patience. Pat -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
