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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?
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On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:56 +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote:
> Problem solved, see below..
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> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Christopher Arnold wrote:
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> > 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)
> >>>=20
> >>> So i guess this is the problem and that a rebuild of gnome/X11 did no=
t
> >>> help. It seems fairly close to the issues with hald/xorg.conf that we=
 saw
> >>> the last time upgrading gnome.
> >>>=20
> >>> What is actually the right config nowdays?
> >>>=20
> >>> 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
> >>=20
> >> Using the above, you shouldn't need the lines below.  Your devices nee=
d
> >> 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=20
> > alltogether. That is if i would have got the keyboard to work i would h=
ave a=20
> > us one instead of my swedish.
> >
> >>> And in /etc/rc.conf:
> >>> bus_enable=3D"YES"
> >>> hald_enable=3D"YES"
> >>>=20
> > If i comment these out then gdm dosn't even start since gdm requiers th=
em i=20
> > guess.
> >
> With AllowEmptyInput and AutoAddDevices set to "off" and both dbus and=20
> 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=20
> another program accepted input to rule out an error in xterm. So i used=20
> preferences/keyboard instead. I didn't expect it to work so i just presse=
d=20
> a key and kept it down. Klick and then characters!
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> So in the end i managed to find out that slow keys somehow had become=20
> enabled in universal access preferences....
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> Embarrasing...
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> But it is a bit strange that your suggestions did not work.
> How come some people need the AllowEmptyInput and AutoAddDevices lines bu=
t=20
> 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
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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