[arch-general] keyboard problem

Jason Steadman mail at meyithi.com
Mon Feb 27 05:36:03 EST 2012


On 27 February 2012 10:34, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to remove Gnome from another machine, but here starting Xorg
> with startx gives
> the following error:
>
> (EE) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: failed to initialize for
> relative axes.
>
>
> While GDM works perfectly fine.
> How can it make a difference?
> And where should be the driver for that keyboard that I can't find
> anywhere in aur?
>
>
> This is the configuration (very simple) of the keyboard from Xorg:
> Section "InputClass"
>        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
>        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>        Driver "evdev"
>    Option "XkbLayout" "it"
> EndSection
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>

Most MS keyboards spit out that error, it's generally harmless.

-- 
Jason Steadman


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