OpenSuSE 11.2 – keyboard does not work in X.org

Written by vidarlo on 20091113 in english and hardware and Linux and rants and software with no comments.

OpenSuSE 11.2 OpenSuSE 11.2 is out.As usual, not everything works. This time? In for a real charm: keyboard and mouse does not work in Xorg. Even when removing the config and running SaX2 it does not work. After som help from #suse @ freenode I got a crucial clue to it. Quoting xorg.conf in 11.2:

Section "ServerFlags"
  # Uncomment the following option to reenable 
  # kbd/mouse driver sections.
  # Otherwise evdev driver is used.
  # Option       "AutoAddDevices" "off"
  Option       "AIGLX" "on"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

That’s right. Just uncomment that one line, # Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" – restart X, and everything worked. You can do this from SSH, or you can do it from the console – where the keyboard works fine. Just boot in single user mode or ssh in.

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