mouse and keyboard are dead on X: Debian testing
 

Hya,

System Notebook, with Debian testing, with xfce.

Symptom Mouse and keyboard are dead on X. Keyboard is OK on console, mouse, ?? so two mice were checked, both dead.

So far Xorg.0.log reads: Hotplugging is on drivers kbd and mouse are disabled.

So, following this thread, hotplug is disabled. Then Xorg.0.log says that module kbd and mouse are missing...
However, xserver-xorg-input-kbd and -mouse DO exist, and corresponding modules DO sit under /usr/lib/xorg/modules.
And ati modules (which sit under /usr/lib/xorg/modules) are correctly loaded, so modules path is supposed to be good.
Then, completely lost, just hoping good star alignment, installed xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, (log says it is missing), things went well.

Even with fbdev, auto detecting does not work.

Workaround Disable autodetect, install fbdev

By the way This penguin is the same one as this.

Wish ListHow to turn auto detect back on? Does anybody know how to straighten out?

Closing remark Happy Penguins!

It's generally better to use evdev these days, instead of the old kbd & mouse drivers. It's designed to automatically handle all basic input devices. make sure you have it installed, and try switching to it if you're still configured for the old types.

Hya,

Thanks for your comment.

Yes, I agree with you. But I do not know how to?

evdev is installed. under /usr/share/X11/, evdev rules exist. However, neither keyboard nor mouse is detected. (or disabled??)

I compared this one to other functioning Penguin. evdev rules are identical. I have not checked udev yet.

May be my penguin is not quite happy yet.

Hi, not sure if this will help, because it's a slightly different case: I did a fresh wheezy install a few days ago and my keyboard and mouse were unresponsive on X (I could use the keyboard on the virtual console, however). The solution was to remove the directory /run from the system (what I did was to move it inside /root, just in case, and reboot, then when I checked that everything was fine, I removed it). It's a bug with udev, if I'm not wrong.

Regards.

How are you configuring X? If you have an xorg.conf, then you need to check the section of it that configures your drivers, as shown in your archwiki link. It also tells you how you can check your current configuration by using:
"setxkbmap -print -verbose 10"

Other than that I really couldn't tell you offhand, as it's been a while since I've had to fool with it. I go conf-less these days and let X configure itself. I wasn't aware, for example, that they've created a new InputClass section to take over from InputDevice.

Thanks for replies.

odiseo77: I tried your remedy. I regret to say, but it did not work. I guess you hit this bug. Now I know that I need to check something else.

David the H: Yes, I regret to say, but I use /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it IS functional.

cheers

I installed wheezy and had the same trouble -- renamed /run to /old-run and now the system seems to work fine. I'm interested, though, what kind of impact renaming that directory might have ... can it just stay that way indefinitely?

/gb

Dead again
 

Hya,

After dist-upgrade, mouse and keyboard are dead even with xorg.conf (auto add OFF).



Before dist-upgrade Xorg.log used to say:So, I was trying to reconfigure udev, without any luck.

After dist-upgrade Xorg.log saysAnd mouse and keyboard are dead!!

Without xorg.conf, mouse and keyboard are dead, and log looks like before dist-upgrade, (I have not yet checked line by line)

Symptom went worse, however, there is a clue among upgraded packages.

Make a simple xorg.conf and add these

Hya,

Thanks jim p.

I made three line xorg.conf, and regret to say but mouse and keyboard are dead.

Log says that no input driver/identifier specified, ignoring.

regards

Hya,

After update (about a week interval after post #8), the workaround posted in #1 works again.

Checking with udevadm, I somewhat think that the problem resides in evdev, (not sure yet).

cheers

Try reinstalling Xorg and what will happen.

Hya

Apology for delay.

I have tried to reinstall xorg, evdev and udev. So far, no luck.

cheers

There is a thread at forums.debian.net - seems like a similar issue: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=64927

And another: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62880

Hya,

So far, current udev (171-1) and new kernel 2.6.39, still no luck.

cheers

I have not tried to downgraded udev as the thread by Caravel.

Same thing here, I just installed Wheezy AMD-64 on brand new hardware. Use ATI Radeon driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

Keyboard and mouse are non-functional. Can't CTRL-ALT-F1, neither ALT-SYSREQ

I can SSH into the box, can't see anything strange. According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log the config files from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d are used.
I can find one file with something about a keyboard:10-evdev.conf
But it doesn't say a thing to me, either good or bad.
There is no message in Xorg.0.log about a missing or disabled keyboard.

Edit: removing /run was not a good idea, the machine wouldn't boot after that. I thought it was a symlink to /var/run? Anyway, recreated /var/run and ln -s /var/run /run and booting is fine again.

jlinkels

To my surprise these packages were not installed. However Xorg.0.log did not complain, and worse of all, after installation keyboard and mouse are still dead in X, no log in Xorg.0.log either.

jlinkels

Small update.

Before I start X, keyboard and mouse are running fine.
After X is started they are both non-functional
After killing kdm the screen remains black and the keyboard is still dead.

The machine doesn't hang, I can access it by SSH, and also the clock on the login
screen is still running.

jlinkels

I found a workaround by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf with this contents:

jlinkels

And then I ran into the next problem when KDE wouldn't activate compositing with the Radeon driver and installing the fglrx driver invented even more problems.

That was taking me way too much time and I downgraded to Squeeze, which is stable as you can expect from Debian. The only reason I bear with KDE4 is that I can impress my friends using the other platform.

However, there were times when Debian Testing was more stable than the production versions of other distros, not so anymore. At least not when KDE4 came into the picture.

jlinkels

Hya,

After update, X does not look like to find correct color depth, in addition to dead mouse/keyboard without xorg.conf.

Other penguins are happy without xorg.conf, so is it specific to ATI???

Happy Penguins!