liveslak disabling keyboard/mouse on GUI login after install

dimm0k · 03-13-2020, 02:20 PM

Recently installed liveslak's slackware64-live-current.iso and everything was good from bootup through to the install using setup2hd. after that if I boot from the fresh installation I get stuck right at the GUI login screen as my keyboard and mouse are completely turned off. booting off a rescue disk and changing the inittab to skip the GUI on startup brings me to a text console where both the keyboard and mouse work without problem. as soon as I attempt to get into X, the keyboard and mouse cease to work. any suggestions?

Alien Bob · 03-13-2020, 04:37 PM

So... what do the logfiles tell you? X.Org writes its log to /var/log/ and you will have a session log as well.
Simply "mouse and keyboard do not work" is not much to go with.

dimm0k · 03-18-2020, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

So... what do the logfiles tell you? X.Org writes its log to /var/log/ and you will have a session log as well.
Simply "mouse and keyboard do not work" is not much to go with.

apologies for not giving much details on this, but it the X.Org log was empty and /var/log/messages did not give much info

Code:

Mar 13 18:30:02 darkstar haveged: haveged starting up
Mar 13 18:30:02 darkstar root: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/ip address add 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo
Mar 13 18:30:02 darkstar root: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar dbus-daemon[861]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.0' (uid=0 pid=864 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") (using servicehelper)
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar polkitd[878]: Started polkitd version 0.116
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar acpid: starting up with netlink and the input layer
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar acpid: 1 rule loaded
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar acpid: waiting for events: event logging is off
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar dbus-daemon[861]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar haveged: haveged: ver: 1.9.8; arch: x86; vend: GenuineIntel; build: (gcc 9.2.0 ITV); collect: 128K 
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar haveged: haveged: cpu: (L4 VC); data: 32K (L4 V); inst: 32K (L4 V); idx: 25/40; sz: 32671/52623 
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar haveged: haveged: tot tests(BA8): A:1/1 B:1/1 continuous tests(B):  last entropy estimate 8.00109 
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar haveged: haveged: fills: 0, generated: 0  
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar /usr/sbin/gpm[943]: *** info [daemon/startup.c(136)]: 
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar /usr/sbin/gpm[943]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode.
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar acpid: client connected from 954[0:0]
Mar 13 18:30:03 darkstar acpid: 1 client rule loaded

I was able to boot and run X fine after replacing the stock kernel with a custom one I had built another partition - this one had 14.2 upgraded to -current