Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

I have managed to get startx working again, but I'm not sure if it's the
correct way.  I added my user to the 'input' group after noticing the
following in /home/cas/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log

[ 24633.131] (**) evdev: Dell Dell USB Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
[ 24633.131] (EE) evdev: Dell Dell USB Keyboard: Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event1".

$ ls -l /dev/input/event1
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 65 Dec  4 11:57 /dev/input/event1

and similar for the mouse.


Doing this allows the mouse and keyboard to work with startx but it
seems a rather hackish and possibly completely incorrect solution.  I'm
going to have to do some research on where this input group came from
and whether it's appropriate for ordinary user accounts to be members.
I suspect it's a bad idea to do that.

I'm still getting the "xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for
I/O (Operation not permitted)" error message in startx.log - and
so far google has been absolutely useless in revealing what that's
about...several people have complained about it but no-one has come up
with a definitive reason for it.


craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>