[arch-general] Crud! Rebooted Can't Login - No Mouse or Keyboard with kdm??

[Bram Schoenmakers]

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,

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers

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