Xorg 7.7 suddenly lost the keyboard

[Jukka Ukkonen]

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
>