Hi, Conrad Hughes <debbugs@xrad.org> (21/04/2011): > A fresh amd64 install of wheezy with "Graphical desktop environment" > selected in tasksel failed to start a usable graphical environment: > the image was corrupt, and keyboard and mouse input were ignored. corrupt how? If the server was crashed, it's no surprise keyboard/mouse were ignored. > Replacing nouveau with nvidia got me a working display, but still no > keyboard or mouse. Seem to have solved the latter problem by taking the > following steps: > > 1) apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse > > 2) Add an Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" stanza to my xorg.conf, > which now looks like this (nothing other than these two sections; > vaguely wonder whether I should have more, but this appears to > work): > > # Forgets k/b & mouse without this. > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > EndSection > > # Needed to invoke nvidia driver. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > EndSection evdev should be sufficient in all cases. It doesn't appear in your log, is that package not installed? (xserver-xorg-input-evdev) > Not sure whether this is useful info or not, but it seemed odd to me > that X defaulted to ignoring my keyboard and mouse and didn't even > have apropriate input modules installed. > > [I am using a USB KVM switch, but I did try direct connections to the PC > to no avail] That shouldn't happen. As you can see on [1], evdev is pulled by this meta package. 1. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg KiBi.
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