Re: Re: y fails to start but gives no useful error message

Both the keyboard and mouse work fine for me in fbdev mode.

Jerrit Erickson wrote:

>The fbdev stuff works now. I wrote a script to autogenerate a vanilla
>fb.modes file in case I ever have to do this again... The display
>looks great at 1024x768x32. Repaints rather slowly considering there's
>no load on the box, but I'm assuming the kernel fbcon driver just
>doesn't refresh often enough to look snappy.
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>I got the mouse and keyboard event stuff to work, as in I can cat
>/dev/input/event0 and get keyboard nonsense, and mouse nonsense from
>event1. The mouse works in Y, so I can drag windows around and such,
>but the keyboard doesn't work. I know it's not the event interface
>itself since that's tested. Keymap us or gb makes no difference.
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>I would have looked to see if my keyboard output was still being
>routed to tty1, but attempting to switch tty's after Y has started
>causes the screen to turn into white lines and stop repainting.
>Doesn't crash the whole box, I can still log in on tty2 or ssh, but
>working blind is no fun. This isn't a one time glitch, it happens
>every time and only a reboot will clear it.
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>So, two things. Has anyone else had trouble with the keyboard when
>using evdev driver? And is the tty switching thing a problem for
>anyone else?
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>On 1/23/06, Jerrit Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>On 1/23/06, Kristian Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>Hi Jerrit
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>>>On Mo, 2006-01-23 at 18:00 -0500, Jerrit Erickson wrote:
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>>>>[..] We/I really ought to be a handbook for this stuff.
>>>>Something along the lines of life with qmail or the gentoo handbooks
>>>>that walks through a setup from scratch, in painstaking detail, just
>>>>to get new people running Y without having to go through this sort of
>>>>thing.
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>>>That sounds good. Maybe you can put that article into the new Wiki?
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>>Sure.
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>>>Kristian
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