Bug 359339 – xorg-server 1.9.4: No cursor and a strange behaviour of the keyboard after switching from X to a virtual console

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 07:42:48 UTC]

If I work in a virtual console without starting X, everything is fine.

If I start X and work in its environment (I use Openbox), everything is fine.

But if I switch from X to a virtual console, my keyboard becomes buggish.

The complex of symptoms is:
- There is no cursor anymore.
- I don't see commands that I press.
- Nevertheless, commands that I press - work.
- They work but not immediately. I have to push "Enter" several times to get them computed.
- Scrolling with Shift-PgUp/PgDown doesn't work.

If a virtual console has been open prior to X, I get the whole complex of symptoms described above immediately after switching from X to it.

If I, started X, login into a new virtual console, first it works well: I see the cursor in the login prompt and then in shell, also I see letters that I press there and then in shell. But then I get the same complex of symptoms after computing one of the following commands: `man`, `less`, `ls` (I wasn't yet test all commands).

If I terminate X, console symptoms stay. Until I reboot.

==

I am not sure that my bug isn't related to the Bug 247543 - "After the last xorg update the keyboard doesn't work on the console anymore".

The reasons for which I decided to open a new bug, are:
- Heiko Baums said, his bug has gone after replacing Slim with gdm. But I don't have display managers at all (Openbox only).
- Heiko Baums said, he had to "press very often onto one key, before the keyboard and bash react". But I have to push Enter, not seeing command.

==

I am ready to submit any information you need. And also, if it's useful, to switch to newer (testing) or older (masked) versions of xorg. Also, if useful, to install another Linux distribution with the same 1.4.9.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot to initlevel3
2. Login to root (tty1)
3. Login to a not root-user (tty2)
4. startx
5. Ctrl-Alt-F1

Actual Results:  
- There is no cursor anymore.
- I don't see commands that I press.
- Nevertheless, commands that I press - work.
- They work but not immediately. I have to push "Enter" several times to get them computed.
- Scrolling with Shift-PgUp/PgDown doesn't work.


Laptop ASUS W7J

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`emerge --info`

app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r2, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5500_@_1.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:30:01 +0000
USE="acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri dvd fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk iconv ipv6 modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline session ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 07:52:10 UTC]

Created attachment 266331 [details]
Xorg.0.log

[Comment 2 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 07:54:05 UTC]

Created attachment 266333 [details]
xorg.conf

[Comment 3 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 08:12:26 UTC]

Created attachment 266335 [details]
kernel .config

[Comment 4 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 10:26:13 UTC]

Created attachment 266345 [details]
make.conf

[Comment 5 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 10:27:16 UTC]

Created attachment 266347 [details]
package.use

[Comment 6 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-18 20:15:56 UTC]

With LiveDVD 11.0 switching from X to a console works fine on my laptop.

What should I update, or reinstall, or reconfigure, to get the same environment as on LiveDVD?

Build generic kernel? Nouveau? Something else? Which version of xorg is used on LiveDVD?

[Comment 7 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-19 06:50:51 UTC]

>Which version of xorg is used on LiveDVD?

1.10.0 ...

[Comment 8 Alexey Mishustin 2011-03-20 00:03:24 UTC]

I have built a new kernel based on the config of the InstallationCD, compiled nouveau instead of nvidia, and the bug has gone. (Xorg-server - the same 1.9.4)