Wierd X issue.

[Jamie Bowden]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Mark Santcroos wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:20:25PM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > My problem is that X can't grab the keyboard.  X comes up just fine, but
> > anything I type doesn't echo in the focused window (xterm for test
> > purposes), and upon exiting I get random garbage dumped to my command
> > line.  This doesn't happen on my desktop, only my laptop.  This happens
> > both in the dock and out of it.  With this exception, everything else
> > appears to be working fine (except the:

> I had the same. It was missing a keyboard extension file somewhere. I don't
> recall the exact filename though. I fixed it by reinstalling XFreee4-libs if
> I recall correctly. I did get hinted about the filename so you might want to
> doublecheck your logs for it.

Both /var/log/messages and XFree86.0.log are empty of errors.  One thing I
do note is that there is no keyboard device in /dev, which 4-S has.  When
I try to create it using mknod, I get told no such file or directory (Duh,
I'm trying to CREATE it you worthless bag of bits).  I made a copy of my
XF86Config file and removed it from /etc/X11, verified that X couldn't
find a config file, and ran xf86cfg.  I got the startup screen and a
working mouse, but never got any of the configuration windows, and of
course, the keyboard didn't work (I could not ctl-alt-bs out).  Can devfs
be turned off?  All it's doing is pissing me off, and I think it's causing
my X problem.

Jamie Bowden

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