[arch-general] keyboard problem

Andrea Crotti andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 05:40:44 EST 2012


On 02/27/2012 10:36 AM, Jason Steadman wrote:
> 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.
>

Well I thought that it was the reason why Xorg was not firing up.
Now I found that it's not, more simply awesome is not installed yet :D



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