On Saturday 08 May 2010 14:48:13 Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, guys,
>
> After quite a long update list of packages (100+) and a reboot, I could not
> work in any window or desktop manager I have installed.
>
> I rebooted (the ACPI power switch worked fine) and managed to get
> interactive action during the init scripts and did not allowed "xdm" to
> start.
>
> Then I was able to use normaly the keyboard and mouse ("gpm"). Forced
> reinstall of xorg-server, xorg-drivers, xorg-cf-files, xdm, kdm (also, in
> my case, nvidia-drivers) and tryed to use Window Maker - no mouse
> movements, although the pointer was there, and no visible keyboard effect.
>
> Any hints on how to get things back?
What version of xorg-server?
It gives an elog, did you read it?
What input driver?
If you upgraded to xorg-server-1.8, did you disable hal and enable udev?
Are you using the evdev driver?
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