Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:12 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost X11 input from kybd-SOLVED! Message-ID: <47743110.3010507@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20071227214955.GA382@chateau.d.lf> References: <47741BFE.5020206@chuckr.org> <20071227214955.GA382@chateau.d.lf>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > ,--[ 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. > | > | 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 ... > | > | 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: Nice guess, but no, no changes in my xorg.conf file. Doesn't amtter too much, because I've solved the problem. I recalled a change I made in my config file about 2 weeks ago. I figued it was too minor to count, so I completely forgot I even did it until I wemt looking thru my kernel config with an eye towards hackery, then I remembered that one line I'd added, to restrict the number of virtual terminals to 8. That's what used to be standard, way back when, but I recently saw in the manual that the default's now 16. I know that X servers make use of the highest free terminal, and it COULD be possible that someone coding that up decided not to check the number, just to reply on a default ... now that the problem has disappeared (with only that one change, so it's a certainty what fixed it), I have a bit of a suspicion about that code now. Ahh, heck, who cares. Least it works. Thanks for the effort. > ---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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHdDEQz62J6PPcoOkRAg6mAJ9EVrGx4Tqxdw9Oywewm3rCSzJwPwCeKdie hBwNE8EAn0CszCOWAPNy8/U= =SKRY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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