On Wednesday 24 December 2008 5:10:33 pm Andrew Przepioski wrote: > He could also add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" > EndSection > > Hasn't this been mentioned all over the place? > > -Andrew > > --- On Tue, 12/23/08, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes > To: "General Discusson about Arch Linux" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 6:49 PM > > Angel Velásquez wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Griffin > > <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Baho Utot > > <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux. > >>> > >>> Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. > >>> I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, > > rebooted. > > >>> Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then > > proceeded to > > >>> install alsa which when fine. > >>> > >>> Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. > >>> then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. > >>> X started and gave me the X cursor. > >>> > >>> The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X > > with the > > >>> <Backspace> trick. > >>> ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft > > Windows button" to > > >>> gain control of the system. > >>> > >>> I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install > > runs fine > > >>> with KDEMOD. > >>> > >>> Has any one experienced this? > >>> > >>> Any one with some pointers/Help? > >> > >> http://archlinux.org/news/424/ > > > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging > > As the others indicated, X now uses hotplugging. So you're probably > failing because either you don't have the evdev driver loaded and/or you > don't have the hal service running. So add "evdev" to your > modules list > in rc.conf, and "hal" to your daemons list. > > HTH, > > DR I do have evdev and hal runnning. I had a look at the Xorg wiki page and I tried setting it up with hwd -xa That worked. I am going to diff the configuration from hwd and Xorg -configure to see what is different. I had been following the beginners Guide from the wiki. Thanks everyone for your help
