Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:05:04 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard not working in gnome? Message-ID: <1242407104.1755.119.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151849480.1696@localhost> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905140258190.98680@localhost> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151253370.4466@localhost> <1242397220.1755.88.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151828200.1493@localhost> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151849480.1696@localhost>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:56 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > Problem solved, see below.. > > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:05 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote: > >>> In Xorg.0.log i see: > >>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device USB Receiver > >>> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) > >>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard > >>> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) > >>> (The at part makes sense, i only have USB on this machine) > >>> > >>> So i guess this is the problem and that a rebuild of gnome/X11 did not > >>> help. It seems fairly close to the issues with hald/xorg.conf that we saw > >>> the last time upgrading gnome. > >>> > >>> What is actually the right config nowdays? > >>> > >>> I have the following in xorg.conf: > >>> Section "ServerLayout" > >>> Identifier "Simple Layout" > >>> Screen "Screen 1" 0 0 > >>> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" > >>> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > >>> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > >>> Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" > >>> EndSection > >> > >> Using the above, you shouldn't need the lines below. Your devices need > >> to be statically configured in xorg.conf. If you are using hald, then > >> remove both the AllowEmptyInput and AutoAddDevices lines above. I > > When i commment theese out i get neither keyboard or mouse. > > Also i notice in the xorg logfile that my "Keyboard1" gets ignored > > alltogether. That is if i would have got the keyboard to work i would have a > > us one instead of my swedish. > > > >>> And in /etc/rc.conf: > >>> bus_enable="YES" > >>> hald_enable="YES" > >>> > > If i comment these out then gdm dosn't even start since gdm requiers them i > > guess. > > > With AllowEmptyInput and AutoAddDevices set to "off" and both dbus and > hald enabled it now works... Why? This means that you are using purely static configured devices from xorg.conf. > Well i tried and xterm as usual and it didn't work. Decided to check if > another program accepted input to rule out an error in xterm. So i used > preferences/keyboard instead. I didn't expect it to work so i just pressed > a key and kept it down. Klick and then characters! > > So in the end i managed to find out that slow keys somehow had become > enabled in universal access preferences.... > > Embarrasing... > > But it is a bit strange that your suggestions did not work. > How come some people need the AllowEmptyInput and AutoAddDevices lines but > not others? It looks like hal is seeing your keyboard, but I don't see it picking up the mouse. You would need to look at lshal to figure out what is going on there. If you are using hal with a non-us keyboard layout you probably want to search the archives for the fdi setup to configure your keyboard layout. robert. > /Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkoNoMAACgkQM4TrQ4qfROPBsgCeKa7MVpsXdBJl1oV1InQNsKhm GNwAniojmyN0Z55MQpjlHMkyAYYTnzQl =4N2B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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