HP compaq nc8230 has no mouse, keyboard in intial X session after boot with auto-login set

[Christopher Hoover]

Ubuntu 8.10.

HP Compaq nc8230 lpaptop has no mouse, keyboard (i.e. built-in devices) in intial X session after boot.

The X log at boot shows that the server can't find them initially.

/etc/init.d/gdm restart fixes the problem.

The X log at this point shows that the server finds them.

This is 100% repeatable. Restarting gdm is required after every boot.

The only non-default gdm setting is auto login.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

Also, the typical case where keyboard/mouse don't work is because hal wasn't running. Check if hald is running or not when X starts. I'll bet that's what the problem is.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Guessing this is a hal issue really, but without seeing logs, hard to say. Even if it is hal, maybe xserver with auto-login is going too fast and needs to pause and wait for hald to start or something, so can leave it as an xserver bug for now.]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.