[arch-general] x hotplugging probs

[André Ramaciotti]

Do you have hal running when you start X? (/etc/rc.d/hal start)

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> Having major probs after the upgrade to the latest X w/hotplugging.
>
> X starts, but keyboard and mouse are dead.  The wiki page is really vague -
> I'm not really sure what/how I'm supposed to configure to make this work.
>  It says I want to update the entries for things like input.xkb.layout,
> input.xkb.variant, input.xkb.rules, input.xkb.model, input.xkb.options, etc.
> in the 10-keymap.fdi file.  But update them to what?  I'm not sure what the
> values should be.  Also, that only explains keyboard.  Why isn't mouse
> working?
>
> Xorg.0.log tells me:
>
> (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.
>
>
> I have these packages installed, and HAL running:
>
> xf86-input-evdev 2.0.7-1
> xf86-input-keyboard 1.3.1-1
> xf86-input-mouse 1.3.0-1
> xf86-video-ati 6.9.0-5
> xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0-2
>
>
> Also, I can't currently disable hotplugging, since I don't have an
> xorg.conf file.  (X has always been able to start fine without one; I
> believe it uses its own stock/internal one.)  Do I really need to go through
> the pain of generating a conf file just to get this turned off???  There's
> got to be SOME way to get this to work.
>
> Help appreciated!
>
> DR
>
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