Bug 252480 – keyboard and mouse stop working with xorg-server-1.5.3

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251093
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2008-12-25 14:26:49 UTC]

keyboard and mouse stop working with xorg-server-1.5.3 but returned to working after downgrading back to xorg-server-1.5.2

Portage 2.1.6.2 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:05:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/nouveau /home/marijn/git/gentoo-lisp-overlay /home/marijn/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam firefoxflac fortran gdbm gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk hal history iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kpathsea ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session smp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nouveau nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2008-12-25 15:03:20 UTC]

Not a bug.
1.5.3 disables mouse/kbd drivers if evdev is available.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2008-12-25 21:22:05 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251093 ***