USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 18:38 -0600, linux guy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         You may be seeing this:
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462606 which seems
>         to be
>         caused by upgrading to Xorg 1.5. Note that one contributor
>         suggests
>         trying a minimal xorg.conf. I haven't tried this but I'm about
>         to.
>         
>         If it doesn't work, you can regress to an earlier version of
>         Xorg by
>         installing it via rpm (with the --oldpackage option). I did
>         this
>         yesterday to be able to use my system. Let me know if you need
>         help with
>         this.
>  
> Thanks !
>  
> I am operating from a very minimal computer while my main computer is
> down.   Could you tell me what exact package I need to uninstall and
> which one I need to download and install ?

This is what I did:

1) Used "grep xorg-x11 /var/log/yum.log" to see what the latest yum
update installed in relation to X. This gave me
xorg-x11-Xorg-server-common and xorg-x11-Xorg-server-Xorg plus some
other things which don't seem relevant.

2) Used yumdownloader (from the yum-utils package: "yum install
yum-utils") to get the previous versions of these packages, which the
update had wiped from my cache. Note that you have to provide the
package names, which the above grep can also give you, assuming you
updated Xorg at least once since installing the system. If not, get the
ones from the install CD.

3) Use "rpm -ihv --oldpackage old1.rpm old2.rpm" to install. Hopefully
you won't end up in dependancy hell.

4) Restart X and cross fingers.

No guarantees, YMMV, etc. etc.

poc

PS Some day maybe we'll have an "undo" option for yum :-)