After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

[jackslash]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

It does and there was no change.

Also got another update for Xorg just now and still no luck.

I narrowed down the problem to the Xorg server itself instead of KDM. I launched the X server on its own and i couldnt move the mouse. Then i switched back to the terminal and noticed the X log printed on the screen and had a bit of a d'oh moment.

Here are some interesting excerpts from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

...

(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
	/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.

...

(II) config/hal: Adding input device Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"

(WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"

(WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"

(WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed

now evdev is a kernel module. I checked and it is loaded. I'm going to try loading a previous kernel and see what happens although I dont see why this would only break for me if there was a serious conflict between the kernel and Xorg.

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Does anyone see anything i'm not?

[dibl]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

I looked at the original VESA xorg.conf file that I set up before I installed my Nvidia driver. It is identical to the first one you posted.

Did you try the

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

script?

[jackslash]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

Yup thought it looked like a placeholder conf file.

No luck with the earlier kernel either.

I also tried that script a while ago and it didnt do anything.

It seems the xorg server is autoconfiguring itself from the HAL daemon these days.

I ran the hal daemon in verbose mode on the terminal and restarted KDM to see if it provoked a reaction but i cant see anything off in the log file. I attached it anyway.

I think this is getting into more bug report territory. I'm determined not to re-install before i find out where it went wrong. I may be here a while though!

[The Liquidator]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

Hi Dibl

Yes, your earlier post is right- those who run betas do tend to have white knuckles.

I have tonight nicked my son's cable connection (he's gone out) and downloaded both todays build of the alternate and the desktop version. Interestingly, Sonic (the Windows CD Burner)does'nt seem to know how to deal with an ISO file so having created one beermat I'm now typing this running Mandriva 2008 live whilst burning the ISO images with K3b. As I've said in other posts - no matter what you bugger up with linux there's always a way out of it!

Interestingly the fonts on this site look really good as I type now.

[toad]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

jackslash, just to make sure - are we talking about a wubi install?

[jackslash]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

So after googling my xorg log that i posted above and reading this Ubuntu bug report talking about similar things I realised that the other input driver that was uninstalled that I forgot was probably evdev.

A quick search with aptitude later and evdev is back installed and KDM starts to work!

So the question is now why doesn't xorg depend on input-evdev. I'll file a bug report later.

So for anyone else who may run into this problem boot into recovery mode, log in and do:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

[artisan]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

Thank you VERY much for the solution !!!

I was stuck in character mode since my last update. The touchpad of my HP Compaq 6710b is still not working though. But a regular mouse seems to be working.

Thanks again !

[dibl]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input.

So the question is now why doesn't xorg depend on input-evdev. I'll file a bug report later.

So for anyone else who may run into this problem boot into recovery mode, log in and do:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

Thanks for posting this!

[jackslash]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

Thank you VERY much for the solution !!! 

I was stuck in character mode since my last update. The touchpad of my HP Compaq 6710b is still not working though. But a regular mouse seems to be working.

Thanks again !

no worries glad i could help.

for your touch pad do this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all

alternatively for a more custom solution is to run synaptic and search for

xserver xorg input

and select the drivers for your devices from the list.

[artisan]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

Thank you VERY much for the solution !!!

I was stuck in character mode since my last update. The touchpad of my HP Compaq 6710b is still not working though. But a regular mouse seems to be working.

Thanks again !

no worries glad i could help.

for your touch pad do this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all

alternatively for a more custom solution is to run synaptic and search for

xserver xorg input

and select the drivers for your devices from the list.

Yep. Now even the touchpad is working !!! Thanks again !

[Snowhog]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

From the Grub menu, it should be the second menu item.

[Guest]

Re: After updates KDM login screen wont accept input. (SOLVED)

well i'm proudly communicate that it is not solved!

i've just done

• sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all
• sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
• and tried to fix Xserver via recovery console

and it still ain't works at all! :P

when i do sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-* it says "xserver-xorg-input-* is already the newest version"...

also i've noticed a couplla interesting lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.