update to current - mouse and keyboard not working
 

Hi, today I update my two machines (both running Slackware Current) using slackpkg and after restart mouse and keyboard aren't working.
My first machine is a PC using integrated Intel videocard and wireless a4tech mouse and keyboard, here is a x.org log:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/605085/Xorg.0.log

My second machine is a notebook using nvidia card, touchpad and keyboard not working, here's a log:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/605085/Xorg2.log

Keyboard works before I start X.org so I type "Xorg - configure" but it didn't works.

Is there any solution to fix this (other then to reinstall packages from x directory of Slackware 13.37)?

Yes, I had the same problem, but it was totally my fault. I forgot to launch the mandatory After that it worked.

=>You didn't update your installation properly. New package "mtdev" is missing. (From the Change Log: "x/mtdev-1.1.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added. This is a multitouch library needed by the evdev and synaptics drivers.")

When updating your installation, *always* do "slackpkg install-new" before you do "slackpkg upgrade-all".

Edit: TobiSGD is faster and better at answering questions than I'll ever be :)

Thanks a lot! Now it works. I didn't know option "install-new" in slackpkg, in the future I will remember to use it ;)

:doh: me too, thanks for the hint.

Markus

+1

Thanks for the post.

I also use

Kind regards

Would you like to explain? On my -current mirror /patches is empty (besides some text-files), so I don't understand that command.

It's part of a script I run when I look for updates.
So if there are patches they will be installed also.

Kind regards

i do this thing

slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg install patches

but my ati drivers doesnt work anymore ja! i cant install it

anyone?????

thanx guys

A binary driver from ATI?

and it doesn't work or it wont install?

EDIT

And I got caught by the mtdev thing, seems it becomes a dependency for every input driver when they get built with it present.

yes, the binary from ati

install, but doesnt works.....the effects of kde are off and if i run

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf , and startx, fails

only erasing xorg.conf works......but without effects

uninstalls radeon_hd and some other packages, maybe you have a conflict there.

Markus

i did it......but thats not the solution

Which graphics-adapter do you have?

Markus

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5670]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]

and the 12.4 drivers

I have also an ATI 5000 series adapter. But I use the radeon-driver, not fglrx from ATI. And I don't use KDE but dwm, so I've no problems here.

You should reinstall the fglrx driver before you execute the "aticonfig --initial" command.

Markus

Just updated to latest current and found my mouse and keyboard unresponsive in X11..

Looks like anyone who is still using old style kbd or mouse drivers rather than evdev is going to hit this.
Robby, Do input-keyboard and input-mouse need rebuilding/version bumping or are you planning to remove them in favour of evdev?

I originally stuck with the keyboard and mouse drivers because evdev was a little flakey for me when I originally tried it. It's probably improved a little by now though so I'll give it another try.

markush

"You should reinstall the fglrx driver before you execute the "aticonfig --initial" command"

i know but nothing happens, i will try radeon-drivers

If you experience that the KDE-eyecandy doesn't work properly with the radeon-driver, try to change Xrender to opengl, I once had success therewith.

Markus

Same issue with AMD driver here, installs fine, but segfaults when trying to startx (HD6870). Not really a problem for me, gaming is done under Windows and my wmii runs fine with the radeon driver. May be another incompatibility of AMD's driver with current software.

works with xrender and not with opengl ja!!

You did the mesa upgrade and the freeglut new package?

Or does the ATI do the same as nvivida and bring it's own OpenGL library?

You did the mesa upgrade and the freeglut new package?

yes

Or does the ATI do the same as nvivida and bring it's own OpenGL library?

i gueeesss so

have you installed mtdev ?

Thanks for taking an interest but I don't have a problem, I was just reporting the issue incase others hit it.

xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse packages haven't been rebuilt/bumped for the new server as can be seen here:
...and don't work. I was still trying to use 'kbd' and 'mouse' in my xorg.conf which didn't work. Switching to 'evdev' sorts everything out..

As the slackware-current/source/x/ directory doesn't contain them, I'm guessing robby is planning to remove them and just make everyone use evdev, in which case these two packages need to be removed from slackware-current/slackware/x/

XOrg upstream has a newer version
xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.1
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...d-1.6.1.tar.gz

xf86-input-mouse-1.7.2
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...e-1.7.2.tar.gz

So let's just wait for Robby's update for this two packages

At this point they're probably only intended for platforms that don't have evdev. As I said above, my guess is that robby is intending to drop them, but I could be wrong.

that would break some compatibility with older device

Drivers need to be recompiled with every major version jump in the xserver.

This has not occurred this time with those 2 drivers hence the ABI error.

They just to be recompiled and then they will work again normally.

After updating Slackware, which I do daily with a script I wrote years ago, X starts but ignores keyboard and mouse input. Xorg.0.log is an empty file but if I capture the output of startx stderr I get:

"(EE) module ABI major version (8) doesn't match the server's version (12)"

immediately after:

Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

BEFORE attempting to load drivers for any specific hardware.

I found this thread and made sure I had the new package mtdev and all other new packages installed. I'm not sure I understand what you-all have said. Do we need new packages? Can I dump the xf86-keyboard and -mouse packages and use evdev instead? How would I rewrite xorg.conf to use evdev instead? I'm not crashed: mplayer continues to play the show I'm listening to.

What is the ABI version?

Had to run Microsoft's 'Windozzzzze' program(groan!) to post this message.

Yay! Rewriting xorg.conf to use evdev instead of mouse and kbd (as the manpage instructs)- *plus* building the evdev module in the kernel (which I hadn't done) makes it work.

I think the solution is to rebuilt or upgrade xf86-input-{keyboard,mouse} to match XOrg's ABI changes

I removed the xf86-input packages and installed the evdev package, which makes X work, but I still get the ABI not-match error. I downloaded the source for the latest xf86-input but can't build it because I don't build the rest of X. Is there a way to build only portions?

You have read the comments at the top of the X SlackBuild?

I was going to remove them (that was in fact my intent), but my position was based on the idea that nobody still used them these days on linux systems. However, I see that I was wrong, so...

They're small and don't hurt anything by being installed, and that way they'll still be present on the off chance that some weirdo like you wants to use them... ;-) Given that plus the fact that Pat asked me about them earlier today, I suspect you'll see an upgrade to the latest releases of those in the next public update.

LOL. I guess I have to hold my hands up to that one it's a fair cop guv'nor.

Thanks for the update. :)

I had this exact problem after an upgrade last week, about an hour ago I ssh the machine and did an upgrade, 2 of the upgrade files were keyboard and mouse, Now it works