Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:26:07 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sYuGZRAYcz7tioJ62690umptjfwfxHWfqi1uOTes7YvQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53A15FD1.6040206@gmail.com> References: <53A03A3F.9000503@gmail.com> <53A15FD1.6040206@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > I sent the following issue to questions@freebsd.org, but it seems there > are no ideas available there. > So, in the hope that someone on the list x11@freebsd.org might have some > idea what has happened, > I send the same issue to this mailing list as well. > It would be really nice to get my keyboard working with x11/xorg again. > > --jau > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:53:19 +0300 > From: Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> > To: questions@freebsd.org > > > > After digging a bit deeper in the issue the most revealing symptom is > this error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log... > > [ 585.774] (II) Using input driver 'kbd' for 'Keyboard0' > [ 585.774] (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" > [ 585.774] (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events > [ 585.774] (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events > [ 585.774] (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" > [ 585.774] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/kbdmux0" > [ 585.774] (EE) Keyboard0: cannot open "/dev/kbdmux0" > [ 585.774] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "Keyboard0" > [ 585.774] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" > > That "PreInit" is apparently kbdPreInit() and the returned code 8 stands > for BadMatch. > > What should I make of this? > > --jau > > > On 2014-06-15 17:32, Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > >> >> Hello everybody, >> >> I recently had a very peculiar experience with Xorg 7.7 on an amd64 >> system running FreeBSD 10-stable. >> Suddenly any and all X11 applications lost the keyboard. When using >> vanilla vt only the same keyboard >> works just fine. >> I guess this happened after I had updated the ports tree using svn and >> run "portupgrade --batch -y -a". >> Does anyone have any idea what might be the root cause and how to get >> around this. >> Previously I have been using HAL configured devices with Xorg. Now >> even explicitly forcing the automatic >> device detection off did not bring the keyboard back. Rebuilding >> xorg-server to use devd instead of HAL >> did not help either. So, I am confused. Any ideas what to try? >> >> Cheers, >> --jau >> >> Just a few shots in the dark... Does /dev/kbdmux exist? Did it get dropped from your kernel? Did you fail to load it? Did your /boot/loader.conf file change? How did you change Xorg.conf? Looks like it is trying the right thing and jut not finding the device. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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