[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes

[David Rosenstrauch]

Angel Velásquez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at 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/
>>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging

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