Fwd: Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard

[Jukka Ukkonen]

Hi all,
I sent the following issue to questions at freebsd.org, but it seems there 
are no ideas available there.
So, in the hope that someone on the list x11 at freebsd.org might have some 
idea what has happened,
I send the same issue to this mailing list as well.
It would be really nice to get my keyboard working with x11/xorg again.

--jau



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard
Date: 	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:53:19 +0300
From: 	Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com>
To: 	questions at freebsd.org



After digging a bit deeper in the issue the most revealing symptom is
this error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log...

[   585.774] (II) Using input driver 'kbd' for 'Keyboard0'
[   585.774] (**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
[   585.774] (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
[   585.774] (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
[   585.774] (**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
[   585.774] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/kbdmux0"
[   585.774] (EE) Keyboard0: cannot open "/dev/kbdmux0"
[   585.774] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "Keyboard0"
[   585.774] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"

That "PreInit" is apparently kbdPreInit() and the returned code 8 stands
for BadMatch.

What should I make of this?

--jau


On 2014-06-15 17:32, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I recently had a very peculiar experience with Xorg 7.7 on an amd64
> system running FreeBSD 10-stable.
> Suddenly any and all X11 applications lost the keyboard. When using
> vanilla vt only the same keyboard
> works just fine.
> I guess this happened after I had updated the ports tree using svn and
> run "portupgrade --batch -y -a".
> Does anyone have any idea what might be the root cause and how to get
> around this.
> Previously I have been using HAL configured devices with Xorg. Now
> even explicitly forcing the automatic
> device detection off did not bring the keyboard back. Rebuilding
> xorg-server to use devd instead of HAL
> did not help either. So, I am confused. Any ideas what to try?
>
> Cheers,
> --jau
>