From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 21:50:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065B716A41A for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wahjava@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE42F13C461 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wahjava@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so5321793waf.3 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:50:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-face:x-attribution:x-os:x-os-version:x-os-architecture:x-uptime:face:organization:pgp:x-pgp:x-pgp-fp:user-agent:sender; bh=j9NArJaUIeJFwGejABYnwMT+rouRjHrY+1KaKKv1Aq0=; b=FnbJmxWcRYsciby7juat/ekjHWladgdWu72BFXRV0ktlAw4nBBwj2uWXRDpF6nEqnBebBS4Tw6rKkflVg9Hj5CsLq7ZICbyPUj1zdrPLOskt6Taub47Cn02ryeU1xEQa62JY31Zx7KLfX6zuO9YdMqkUOeOAobg2ZYwXsgDXk7M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-face:x-attribution:x-os:x-os-version:x-os-architecture:x-uptime:face:organization:pgp:x-pgp:x-pgp-fp:user-agent:sender; b=ef8LMTBwsdhR8djmzqJoRQ2EPuMGmGcZXHojCMLSuSLDV+NhZUZ5dwsOwzKtCDj8H8y6zEtyNDftFEO9axO9cwcu3xKNtFCVrn5K38cgCeEpTwQatQpMzWVQoS4u1u4sn0+c5AHA/jckteLNXNVJs6Rm4xya6ciCK9gEaopRZyc= Received: by 10.115.88.1 with SMTP id q1mr6999821wal.64.1198792224249; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:50:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from chateau.d.lf ( [122.162.67.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q18sm13137676pog.12.2007.12.27.13.50.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:50:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:19:55 +0530 From: =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktuClgeCkleCljeCksg==?= Ashish Shukla To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071227214955.GA382@chateau.d.lf> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47741BFE.5020206@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47741BFE.5020206@chuckr.org> X-Face: "\:nMpJ)EA!j>2nEu-[(+&o:N+CtL^AS\, Jv*LO5qBr#W2.\=d Subject: Re: lost X11 input from kybd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:50:25 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ,--[ On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0500, chuckr wrote: | I'm running FreeBSD-current. I updated about 30 hours ago, did a | rebuild of world and the kernel (without changing my kernel config file | at all. I have to explain that I start my X11 via startx, I dislike | using anything like xdm (or kdm,gdm etc) so I always use startx, relying | on a ~/.xinitrc I have doctored nicely, to get me into kde. Well, like | I normally do, I loeed in as root on ttyv0, my user "chuckr" on ttyv1, | and then did the startx as chuckr on ttyv1. Everything started up fine, | but when I tried to kill an accientally started xterm, I found I | couldn't kill it with a control-D. After a bit of experimentation, it | became obvious that I coulld get no keyboard input. Thank god I can | still use the mouse perfectly, so I can kill X11 for troubleshooting via | the mouse fine. After I did that, I found that all my keyboard input | which hadn't shown up on any xterm was pasted instead on the screen of | ttyv1, from which I'd started up X11 to begin with. |=20 | So, I can't get my keyboard input to go to X11. I would REALLY love any | guesses at all about why this is, because I can';t use X now on | FreeBSD, and that's my mailer. I am using a poor replacement for this | now, so I would really like to know what's causinbg this ... |=20 | Oh, I have to add, I tried rolling the kernel back to kernel.old, no | differentce, it;s still bad. I tried (after moving kernel.old back to | kernel) to download and install a new world and kernel. Still fails | also. I need some help here, badly. Very basic guess, but does your xorg.conf is reconfigured recently, check for something like following in xorg.conf: ---8<----8<---- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection --->8---->8---- Anyways, have you tried 'xinit xterm', to see if X11 is receiving keyboard input, without KDE ? see, if there're any suspecting error messages, in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log HTH --=20 Ashish Shukla =E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7 =E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=81=E0=A4= =95=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B2 http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ =C2=B7-- =C2=B7- =C2=B7=C2=B7=C2=B7=C2=B7 =C2=B7--- =C2=B7- =C2=B7=C2=B7=C2= =B7- =C2=B7- =C2=B7--=C2=B7-=C2=B7 --=C2=B7 -- =C2=B7- =C2=B7=C2=B7 =C2=B7-= =C2=B7=C2=B7 =C2=B7-=C2=B7-=C2=B7- -=C2=B7-=C2=B7 --- -- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHdB4DHy+EEHYuXnQRAokQAJwJc8Dsz9pJhGeVR3G3xbwvq0InuACeNrxF tVSMTBydVJe5lDdctEgCgZY= =AbYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--