Re: mouse and keyboard fail to work with xorg-server-1.20.11_3,1
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:14:09 UTC
On 2021-07-15 12:27, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:44:04 +0200 > Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:04:44 +0200 >> Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:00:55 +0200 >>> Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> So, I made the mistake of updating firefox today, which resulted in a >>>> forced installation of xorg-server-1.20.11_3,1. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked, even after I >>>> pkg installed xf86-input-keyboard-1.9.0_4 and >>>> xf86-input-mouse-1.9.3_3. >>>> >>>> Luckily, I had a full backup of /usr/local which I could restore to >>>> get a working Xorg. >>>> >>>> Still, it seems rather strange that both the keyboard and mouse >>>> stopped working even after I installed the supposedly relevant >>>> drivers. >>>> >>>> Or maybe those aren't the correct drivers? >>> >>> They aren't, xorg moved to libinput. Maybe all you need is: >>> >>> pkg install xf86-input-libinput >>> >>>> >>>> So, does anyone know what I have to do to get a working keyboard and >>>> mouse with the new xorg-server? >>>> >>> >>> Depends on your version of the OS/installed packages. If installing >>> libinput won't do the trick, you could try a little tool I wrote last >>> year to help debugging Xorg's config after the migration. It's probably >>> a bit outdated at this point: >>> https://github.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check >>> >>> See also: >>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678 >>> Google: kern.evdev.rcpt_mask domain:lists.freebsd.org >>> >> >> Thanks, but as I reported in a follow-up post I got it working. >> >> And libinput was already installed. >> > > That was a fluke. When I tried to start Xorg 1.20.11 today the > mouse and keyboard didn't work. I have no idea why it all of > a sudden worked yesterday but not today. I ran Xorg -version > yesterday to verify that the new server was really running. > > Thanks to your shell script I found out that two libraries were > missing, something which I would expect to be automatically taken > care of by an update of xorg-server. So I installed them (thanks to > pkg). > > I also changed kern.evdev.rcpt_mask to 6, as recommended by your > fantastic script. Which libraries were missing? kern.evdev.rcpt_mask should be 12, it is the default of all supported FreeBSD versions which use evdev. Regards -- Niclas