lost X11 input from kybd
I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file at all. I have to explain that I start my X11 via startx, I dislike using anything like xdm (or kdm,gdm etc) so I always use startx, relying on a ~/.xinitrc I have doctored nicely, to get me into kde. Well, like I normally do, I loeed in as root on ttyv0, my user chuckr on ttyv1, and then did the startx as chuckr on ttyv1. Everything started up fine, but when I tried to kill an accientally started xterm, I found I couldn't kill it with a control-D. After a bit of experimentation, it became obvious that I coulld get no keyboard input. Thank god I can still use the mouse perfectly, so I can kill X11 for troubleshooting via the mouse fine. After I did that, I found that all my keyboard input which hadn't shown up on any xterm was pasted instead on the screen of ttyv1, from which I'd started up X11 to begin with. So, I can't get my keyboard input to go to X11. I would REALLY love any guesses at all about why this is, because I can';t use X now on FreeBSD, and that's my mailer. I am using a poor replacement for this now, so I would really like to know what's causinbg this ... Oh, I have to add, I tried rolling the kernel back to kernel.old, no differentce, it;s still bad. I tried (after moving kernel.old back to kernel) to download and install a new world and kernel. Still fails also. I need some help here, badly. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost X11 input from kybd-SOLVED!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: ,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file | at all. I have to explain that I start my X11 via startx, I dislike | using anything like xdm (or kdm,gdm etc) so I always use startx, relying | on a ~/.xinitrc I have doctored nicely, to get me into kde. Well, like | I normally do, I loeed in as root on ttyv0, my user chuckr on ttyv1, | and then did the startx as chuckr on ttyv1. Everything started up fine, | but when I tried to kill an accientally started xterm, I found I | couldn't kill it with a control-D. After a bit of experimentation, it | became obvious that I coulld get no keyboard input. Thank god I can | still use the mouse perfectly, so I can kill X11 for troubleshooting via | the mouse fine. After I did that, I found that all my keyboard input | which hadn't shown up on any xterm was pasted instead on the screen of | ttyv1, from which I'd started up X11 to begin with. | | So, I can't get my keyboard input to go to X11. I would REALLY love any | guesses at all about why this is, because I can';t use X now on | FreeBSD, and that's my mailer. I am using a poor replacement for this | now, so I would really like to know what's causinbg this ... | | Oh, I have to add, I tried rolling the kernel back to kernel.old, no | differentce, it;s still bad. I tried (after moving kernel.old back to | kernel) to download and install a new world and kernel. Still fails | also. I need some help here, badly. Very basic guess, but does your xorg.conf is reconfigured recently, check for something like following in xorg.conf: Nice guess, but no, no changes in my xorg.conf file. Doesn't amtter too much, because I've solved the problem. I recalled a change I made in my config file about 2 weeks ago. I figued it was too minor to count, so I completely forgot I even did it until I wemt looking thru my kernel config with an eye towards hackery, then I remembered that one line I'd added, to restrict the number of virtual terminals to 8. That's what used to be standard, way back when, but I recently saw in the manual that the default's now 16. I know that X servers make use of the highest free terminal, and it COULD be possible that someone coding that up decided not to check the number, just to reply on a default ... now that the problem has disappeared (with only that one change, so it's a certainty what fixed it), I have a bit of a suspicion about that code now. Ahh, heck, who cares. Least it works. Thanks for the effort. ---88 Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection ---88 Anyways, have you tried 'xinit xterm', to see if X11 is receiving keyboard input, without KDE ? see, if there're any suspecting error messages, in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log HTH -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHdDEQz62J6PPcoOkRAg6mAJ9EVrGx4Tqxdw9Oywewm3rCSzJwPwCeKdie hBwNE8EAn0CszCOWAPNy8/U= =SKRY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost X11 input from kybd
,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file | at all. I have to explain that I start my X11 via startx, I dislike | using anything like xdm (or kdm,gdm etc) so I always use startx, relying | on a ~/.xinitrc I have doctored nicely, to get me into kde. Well, like | I normally do, I loeed in as root on ttyv0, my user chuckr on ttyv1, | and then did the startx as chuckr on ttyv1. Everything started up fine, | but when I tried to kill an accientally started xterm, I found I | couldn't kill it with a control-D. After a bit of experimentation, it | became obvious that I coulld get no keyboard input. Thank god I can | still use the mouse perfectly, so I can kill X11 for troubleshooting via | the mouse fine. After I did that, I found that all my keyboard input | which hadn't shown up on any xterm was pasted instead on the screen of | ttyv1, from which I'd started up X11 to begin with. | | So, I can't get my keyboard input to go to X11. I would REALLY love any | guesses at all about why this is, because I can';t use X now on | FreeBSD, and that's my mailer. I am using a poor replacement for this | now, so I would really like to know what's causinbg this ... | | Oh, I have to add, I tried rolling the kernel back to kernel.old, no | differentce, it;s still bad. I tried (after moving kernel.old back to | kernel) to download and install a new world and kernel. Still fails | also. I need some help here, badly. Very basic guess, but does your xorg.conf is reconfigured recently, check for something like following in xorg.conf: ---88 Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection ---88 Anyways, have you tried 'xinit xterm', to see if X11 is receiving keyboard input, without KDE ? see, if there're any suspecting error messages, in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
