Re: Have WX 3200 Radeon graphics card -- cannot get X11 session to work

[William Bulley <web@umich.edu>]

According to "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com> on Fri, 01/26/24 at 16:28:
> 
> [AMD Official Use Only - General]
> 
> > Unfortunately, the mouse pointer is frozen at the exact center of the
> > 3440 x 1440 monitor, and it will not move.  I don't know how to fix this.  Any
> > help or ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Make sure you have OS mouse and keyboard drivers loaded and configured within your X config?

In my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file I found this line:

   5261.770] (==) AMDGPU(0): Silken mouse enabled

but nothing else related to mouse or keyboard.

I thought those things didn't need to be configured.

Example 8 in the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5.1 addressed the
keyboard as "InputClass" not "InputDevice" as below:

   Example 8. Setting a Keyboard Layout

   /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

   Section "InputClass"
           Identifier "Keyboard1"
           MatchIsKeyboard "on"
           Option "XkbLayout" "es, fr"
           Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
           Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
           Option "XkbOptions" "grp:win_space_toggle"
   EndSection

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file had these lines after I added two
files: one for keyboard and one for mouose (see below);

[    74.787] (II) config/udev: Adding input device System keyboard multiplexer (/dev/input/event0)
[    74.787] (**) System keyboard multiplexer: Applying InputClass "Keyboard0"
[    74.787] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    74.787] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    74.787] (II) config/udev: Adding input device System mouse (/dev/input/event1)
[    74.787] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.

Here are my two added files:

unix% cd /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
unix% cat 00-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier      "Keyboard0"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection
unix% cat trackball.conf
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/sysmouse"
EndSection

I think I need to change "InputClass" to "InputDevice" and add
a Driver line like this:

unix% cat keyboard.conf
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Keyboard0" 
        Driver          "kbd"
EndSection

After another reboot, still no mouse activity:

[    55.745] (II) config/udev: Adding input device System keyboard multiplexer (/dev/input/event0)
[    55.745] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    55.745] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    55.745] (II) config/udev: Adding input device System mouse (/dev/input/event1)
[    55.745] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    55.745] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.

I don't know how to configure my mouse and keyboard so that X11/Xorg will
recognize them.  Please advise.  Thanks in advance.

-- 
William Bulley
E-MAIL: web@umich.edu
<web@umich.edu>