Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux.
Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted.
Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine.
Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor.
The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system.
I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD.
Has any one experienced this?
Any one with some pointers/Help? http://archlinux.org/news/424/
As the others indicated, X now uses hotplugging. So you're probably failing because either you don't have the evdev driver loaded and/or you don't have the hal service running. So add "evdev" to your modules list in rc.conf, and "hal" to your daemons list. HTH, DR