On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich > <wolfgang.lieb...@siemens.com> wrote: > > Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the > > morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard > > input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key > > (remount ro, hard reboot). > > Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any > keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way > hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is > basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't > even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that > in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are > many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of > yours).
Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?). I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as long as it works :-). Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from. TIA, Wolfgang
