At Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:55:35 +1000 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:20:32AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > I have a Raspberry Pi (Model 2 B) running a fairly recent version of > > Raspbian > > (2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie.zip). I have it start up to the console login, > > since most of the time I just ssh into it from another machine (either my > > CentOS laptop or desktop). I just tied to login into its console (using my > > TV > > as a monitor) and using the startx command t fire up the GUI, but it is > > failing. I *think* it is having some sort of problem with the input device > > I > > am using: a combo keyboard / trackball: > > there are no error messages in the log regarding libinput, it all comes up > normally. So whatever the issue is, I don't think that's it. the logind > messages looked fine too, so that shouldn't be an issue either. > > fwiw, you could easily verify it with sudo libinput-debug-events, if that > handles the events correctly then the driver will too and you can mostly > rule out libinput issues. Well, libinput-debug-events does not seem to be installed... What package would it be in? dpkg-query -l \*libinput\* yields: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===========================-============-============-=================================================================== ii libinput-bin 1.5.0-1 armhf input device management and event handling library - udev quirks ii libinput10:armhf 1.5.0-1 armhf input device management and event handling library - shared library ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.20.0-1 armhf X.Org X server -- libinput input driver > > "it is failing" is a bit generic, what exactly doesn't work? The XServer does not start -- I type startx, and after a brief startup blather and a brief screen blanking, it lands back at the shell prompt. The log file is all I have. Yes, it appears that XServer sees everything, but for some reason just exits after it has finished probing... No "obvious" (to me) reason (I have seen Xservers die for various reasons, like bad video timing rates on unsupported video chips, or totally missing mice and/or keyboards -- mostly in the "bad old days" where one had to set things up properly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I believe these days, one does not bother with hand-crafter conf files -- the XServer figures itself out "on the fly". (Or not as the case might be...) > > Cheers, > Peter > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
