Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
On Thursday 23 April 2009 19:29:30 David C. Rankin wrote:
Hello David,
I thought I was ready to rock and roll, but when I grabbed the mouse - it didn't move?? Then I tried typing my pw, and no characters (or dots) appeared? The I tried ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X -- no joy. Then ctrl+alt+F1, still no joy.
OK, ssh into box and kill kdm, back to normal login. Now I'm scratching my head on what to check to get my mouse and keyboard back? Any ideas?
From Xorg.0.log, this is obviously the problem:
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (WW) Disabling Mouse0
Huh? They must have been there a minute ago what gives?
I wonder how they got started last time?
Make sure to start D-Bus and HAL before you start KDM. In rc.conf:
DAEMONS=( ... dbus hal kdm ... )
Kind regards,
Ahah! [13:38 archangel:/etc] # cat rc.conf | grep -E DAEMONS\|MODULES # MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist. # NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array. MODULES=(dm_mod dm_mirror sata_sil nvidia) # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs sshd crond avahi-daemon mysqld samba sensors kdm3) I swear I put them in there! Where did they go? Somebody must have typed ':q' instead of ':wq' on the last trip into rc.conf. What idiot could that have been? Fixed now: [13:43 archangel:/etc] # cat rc.conf | grep DAEMONS # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs sshd crond dbus hal avahi-daemon mysqld samba sensors kdm3) I'll give kde another go and report back. Thanks Bram. Also, if you see anything wrong with the daemon loading order, please let me know. I'm just putting things in a order I think is logical (that doesn't really mean the order 'is' actually logical;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com