Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:44:04 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse and keyboard fail to work with xorg-server-1.20.11_3,1 Message-ID: <20210714154404.03c32df6@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <20210714170444.08a7f1f4@bsd64.grem.de> References: <20210714140055.7ca49259@ernst.home> <20210714170444.08a7f1f4@bsd64.grem.de>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:04:44 +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:00:55 +0200 > Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, I made the mistake of updating firefox today, which resulted in a > > forced installation of xorg-server-1.20.11_3,1. > > > > Unfortunately, neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked, even after I > > pkg installed xf86-input-keyboard-1.9.0_4 and > > xf86-input-mouse-1.9.3_3. > > > > Luckily, I had a full backup of /usr/local which I could restore to > > get a working Xorg. > > > > Still, it seems rather strange that both the keyboard and mouse > > stopped working even after I installed the supposedly relevant > > drivers. > > > > Or maybe those aren't the correct drivers? > > They aren't, xorg moved to libinput. Maybe all you need is: > > pkg install xf86-input-libinput > > > > > So, does anyone know what I have to do to get a working keyboard and > > mouse with the new xorg-server? > > > > Depends on your version of the OS/installed packages. If installing > libinput won't do the trick, you could try a little tool I wrote last > year to help debugging Xorg's config after the migration. It's probably > a bit outdated at this point: > https://github.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check > > See also: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678 > Google: kern.evdev.rcpt_mask domain:lists.freebsd.org > Thanks, but as I reported in a follow-up post I got it working. And libinput was already installed. -- Gary Jennejohn
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