On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:34:17AM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote: > Peter Hutterer wrote on Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:48:07 +1000: > > > the keyboard driver should still work on linux, we just don't really pay > > attention to it anymore (or test it, or ship it). evdev has replaced it > > well and truly and we've put some special hooks into the server to make > > sure that you don't get duplicate events when evdev is being used. Thus, > > there are some cases where the keyboard driver is disabled in the server, > > if you post the full log we may see that this is the case. > > Please see http://pastebin.com/jTWYvRMb.
please don't post pastebin link, they're useless for archives which means people with the same problem in the future can't figure out what was wrong. anyway, from the pastebin: [ 6413.616] X.Org X Server 1.17.1 Release Date: 2015-02-10 [ 6413.617] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 6413.618] Build Operating System: Linux 3.18.9 i686 [ 6413.618] Current Operating System: Linux point 3.18.9 #1 SMP Sun Mar 8 11:57:06 CET 2015 i686 [ 6413.618] Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=801 quiet video=720x400@70 rootfstype=ext4 vt.default_utf8=0 consoleblank=2700 [ 6413.620] Build Date: 15 March 2015 03:45:13PM [ 6413.620] [ 6413.621] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6 [ 6413.622] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. [ 6413.622] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 6413.624] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 17 14:17:23 2015 [ 6413.624] (==) Using config file: "/etc/xorg.conf" [ 6413.625] (==) ServerLayout "Main Layout" [ 6413.625] (**) |-->Screen "PC-Screen" (0) [ 6413.625] (**) | |-->Monitor "Philips 150S4FG" [ 6413.625] (**) | |-->Device "VGA" [ 6413.625] (**) |-->Input Device "IBM 1403" [ 6413.625] (**) |-->Input Device "Logitech M100" [ 6413.625] (**) Option "DontZap" "false" [ 6413.625] (**) Option "BlankTime" "45" [ 6413.625] (**) Option "StandbyTime" "50" [ 6413.625] (**) Option "SuspendTime" "55" [ 6413.625] (**) Option "OffTime" "60" [ 6413.625] (==) Not automatically adding devices [ 6413.625] (==) Not automatically enabling devices I suspect this is the issue here. you're not enabling the device which means it's present but won't send events. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s