[SOLVED] Xorg and problems with evdev

jheengut · 01-18-2011, 01:24 AM

Hi , there slackers.

I'm currently using slackware 13.1 on an lvm parted system.
Everything is working properly except X. I had to fiddle with the xorg.conf file as the server doesn't automatically detect my hardware as it should.
I have also optimized my X server and kde4 is not slow with 256m with both amarok and nepomuk shut down. (to get these two programs not slowing down my desktop I have added another 512m ram to increase it to a total of 768m of RAM).

My mouse is automatically detected, I have removed it from the xorg.conf file. My problem is that I have to log out and again login without killing X or kdm so that the keyboard is working properly (ie all keys are being translated to the correct bindings). I have tested all possible configurations.
When I checked the Xorg.log.1 in /var/log , the evdev module is unloaded since it found a problem. By logging out and logging in , the evdev module (I do not know which one the kernel one or the X evdev module) is automatically reloaded with no problem.

How can I debug this problem ?

markush · 01-18-2011, 07:37 AM

Hello jheengut,

Quote:

...My problem is that I have to log out and again login without killing X or kdm so that the keyboard is working properly (ie all keys are being translated to the correct bindings). I have tested all possible configurations...

have you tried to restart the hald daemon instead? You may open a terminal and issue the command (as root)

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart

maybe that helps.

Markus

jheengut · 01-21-2011, 04:28 AM

As far as I remember hald should be restarted in init 1 .

I shall try it today.

jheengut · 02-02-2011, 05:26 AM

/etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart

does do any good

jheengut · 03-30-2011, 06:24 AM

I have just found that when I am using xine the up arrow stops working

jheengut · 05-24-2011, 05:03 AM

This problem seems to lie only under kde4.4 and kde4.5.5(slackware 13.37 which I AM still testING) and not under other desktop environments

I cannot change the keyboard layout under kde.

the module to change keyboard layouts under systemsettings keeps crashing when clicked and kcmshell refuses to load this module.

markush · 05-24-2011, 08:23 AM

If you want to change the keyboardlayout, you'll have to copy the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf file into the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory, edit this file (it is self-explaining) and then restart the X-server. This should work.

Markus

jheengut · 05-25-2011, 05:45 AM

does this change anything for any evdev device because i cannot get any response for my remote

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...aa7134-877128/