Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>>
Just a few shots in the dark...
Does /dev/kbdmux exist? Did it get dropped from your kernel? Did you fail
to load it? Did your /boot/loader.conf file change?

How did you change Xorg.conf? Looks like it is trying the right thing and
jut not finding the device.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com