No mouse in Fedora 21 -

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/19/2015 09:57 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
>
> On 19/05/15 12:49, stan wrote:
>>> >Any idea welcome,
>> Did you restart X on the F21 box so it would pick up the modified
>> configuration?  If you didn't use startx, that would mean logging out
>> to the greeter / window manager and logging back in.
>>
>> Is gpm installed?  If it is, and you log in to multiuser instead of
>> graphical on the F21 box, does the mouse work?  Does the keyboard?
>> That will determine if the issue is at system level configuration or X
>> configuration.
>>
> .
> I start the computer and login normally with the keyboard, Everything
> works normally until I "startx." Then the graphic login screen is
> displayed and the cursor blinks waiting for me to enter the password but
> I can not, at that point the mouse and keyboard are not responding. It
> seems something is botched in my attempt to shoe horn X into the system?

Can you ssh to the box and look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? Perhaps
a clue is lurking in there. You should also try "ctrl-alt-F2" to see
if you get a console login (may not work if the keyboard is really
botched).

Here are a couple of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf files I have
for reference:

File 1 (from the machine I'm writing this on):
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit 
this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
         Identifier "system-keyboard"
         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
         Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

File 2 (from my laptop):
# This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any
# modifications will be lost.

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"system-setup-keyboard"
	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105+inet"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
#	Option		"XkbVariant"	"(null)"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
EndSection

File 3 (from my machine at home):
# This file is autogenerated by system-setup-keyboard. Any
# modifications will be lost.

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"system-setup-keyboard"
	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105+inet"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
#	Option		"XkbVariant"	"(null)"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
EndSection

File 1 is from a machine built from scratch as an F21 machine (fresh
install), while files 2 and 3 appear identical and they're from systems
that were "fedup"ed from F20 to F21.
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