Re: X.org cursor only moves horizontally

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:46:08PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 11:18:24AM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:43:36PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:50:29PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > > On Feb 2,  6:45pm, prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost (Patrick Welche) wrote:
> > > > -- Subject: Re: X.org cursor only moves horizontally
> > > > 
> > > > Did you see my latest commit?
> > > 
> > > Yes, I see you have created a good place to put it.
> > > 
> > > Sadly this is unchanged:
> > > 
> > > > | Strange thing: when I apply the "patch-ab" to mouse.c, the mouse now 
> > > > moves
> > > > | vertically, but there is no keyboard input.
> > > 
> > > So, now I can get the mouse into the login prompt, but can't type, nor
> > > ctl-alt-bksp / ctl-alt-f1...
> > 
> > Same results with "keyboard" and "kbd", xdm gives me a login screen with a
> > fixed mouse, but no keyboard - even caps lock doesn't show a light.
> 
> xdm is listening on the wrong tty. You have to modify /etx/X11/xdm/Xservers
> and change the vt0 to a free one.

From /etc/ttys:

ttyE7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure

From /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:

:0 local /usr/X11R7/bin/X :0 vt08 -nolisten tcp


I should emphasise that I am not setting up a new X installion - native xorg
was working fine until the mouse stopped moving vertically...

Cheers,

Patrick