Apologies for the spam, for the record I figured out what happened. Apparently, when Xorg-1.16 was released it came with a new "rootless" feature, which with the help of System-logind X is started on the terminal at which a login took place. This also means that running $ screen and then startx breaks this process big time, as I discovered a bit ago. Forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184924 Hope this helps someone else who may or may not run into this in future. On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:58:54PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Forgot to include display driver info: > ii nvidia-kernel-4.2.0-1-amd64 340.93+1+b1+5+4.2.3-2 > amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 > ii nvidia-kernel-amd64 340.93+4.2.0+1+b1 > amd64 NVIDIA kernel module for Linux (amd64 flavor) > ii nvidia-kernel-common 20151021+1 > amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files > ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.93-6 > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:51:13PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi all, > > recently I got around to attempting to start X again after not having run it for > > a while, and am finding that every time I do so a couple of things happn. First > > I get an XF86OpenError permission denied when opening <insert console here>. > > After chmod 777 to work around that problem, I can startx everything > > successfully, even hear Orca speaking; however, by this point I completely lose > > control of the physical keyboard, after which point aside from a reboot my only > > recourse is to SSH in and killall X. > > > > Any ideas as to what could have borked here? Nothing appears amiss in > > Xorg.0.log. Perhaps Speakup is not relinquishing control of the keyboard in > > conjunction with the TTY layer as it has in prior versions? > > dpkg -l: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+12 > > amd64 > > ii linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64 4.2.5-1 > > amd64 > > Thanks! > > -- > > Igor > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Igor > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
