no keyboard and no mouse in X

[AlainKnaff]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-core

After an upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04 X had support for neither the mouse, nor the keyboard.

Removing my previous xorg.conf did not help.

Adding the following brought back the mouse, but not the keyboard:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection

It complained about a non-existing "kbd" driver (... and indeed, there was no kbd_drv.so module to be found, no keyboard_drv.so)

Adding the following addressed the issue (but is not pretty, as presumably a different event queue number might be needed for different machines, or even the same machine after further upgrades);

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
EndSection

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi AlainKnaff,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi AlainKnaff,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
normal support channels, please see:

    http://www.ubuntu.com/support

If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
Lucid, please run the following command to refresh the report:

  apport-collect 574816

If you are not the original reporter, please file a new bug report, so
we can work with you as the original reporter instead (you can reference
bug 574816 in your report if you think it may be related):

  ubuntu-bug xorg

If by chance you can no longer reproduce the issue on Lucid or if you
feel it is no longer relevant, please mark the bug report 'Fix Released'
or 'Invalid' as appropriate, at the following URL:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/574816

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

WTF? This *is* about lucid. I only mentioned 9.04 because that was the version I upgraded from (indeed, I thought this might be relevant, as I had installed a couple of other machines from scratch, where this problem did not occur). But the problem occurs *after* the upgrade, i.e. in lucid. And it used to work before.

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