openSuse 11.3 usb mouse & usb keyboard problems

Question

Hello,

I've just installed openSuse 11.3 and when I plug-in my usb mouse or usb keyboard seem nothing happens. What is the problem is there any quick issues/solutions on it? The reason I'm not familiar to openSuse.

Sultan

Answer 1

Just had the same issue. I found a bug report for it. Booting to runlevel 3 and adding the following to the ServerFlags section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

option "AutoAddDevices" "off"

seems to fix the mouse and keyboard issue (on my laptop), but nothing else seems to work properly.

I am going back to 11.2 for the time being.

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Run Xorg -configure to create an xorg.conf.new file in your home directory. You can then copy that to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then add the following:

Section "ServerFlags"
    option  "AutoAddDevices"  "off"
EndSection

Answer 2

I installed 11.3 a few weeks ago and everything was perfect until this issue which started around 10th Sept afaict. For me, the 1st few keystrokes would be lost, then would work until a new window was focussed, then 1st few keystrokes lost again... Chris's work-around above has worked for me so far. At work I switched to a mac keyboard and that didn't show the problem (though it took a while to sort out a sensible key mapping).

Answer 3

I have the same problem since a few days. The first keystrokes are not recognized. Unfortunately the workaround posted here does not work for me, AutoAddDevices = off on a notebook is not a solution.

There is a solution posted at the OpenSUSE forums: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/hardware/445907-keyboard-mouse-freezes-11.html

Answer 4

According to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638200 this bug is fixed by kernel rpm 2.6.34.7 although the changelog in the rpm does not reference bnc#638200.