Arnt Karlsen wrote on 26/04/17 17:26:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:08:48 +1000, Ralph wrote in message
> <2fab2208-e0dc-27f5-dd3d-f9d7156bbaa7@???>:
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>> Arnt Karlsen wrote on 26/04/17 11:18:
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>> I believe keyboard and mouse needs the "evdev" module to be loaded
>> before something; certainly before starting X.
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> ..aye: root@box:~# lsmod |grep evdev
> evdev                  24576  26
> root@box:~# lsmod |grep vdev |grep -v evdev
> root@box:~# lsmod |grep dev |grep -v evdev
> input_polldev          16384  1 lis3lv02d
> ipmi_devintf           20480  0
> ipmi_msghandler        49152  3 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_poweroff,ipmi_watchdog
> ppdev                  20480  0
> parport                49152  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
> videodev              180224  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
> media                  40960  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> joydev                 20480  0
> root@box:~#

Yeah, you would do "lsmod | grep -w evdev" only, and apparently it's
loaded, so probably not the issue. You can check inside initrd image
that "evdev" is mentioned in the "conf/modules" file to ensure/verify
that it happens early enough.

Note that "vdev" itself is not a module, but is present in a number of
pre-pivot init scripts, the vdevd daemon, and its configuration files.
The vdevd daemon is run twice: once pre-pivot, then that one is killed
and another is started via the /etc/init.d/vdev script.

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Perhaps /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells something. And I have this vague
memory of being in that same situation, but I can't remember the resolution.

Ralph.