no keyboard with 13.1 xfce

[Shador]

Xorg.0.log and please stop posting only the end or other extracts. Unless you really now what you're doing, this is completely useless as it usually lacks the relevant parts or necessary context!
You don't know what we're looking for and regularly we don't know that ourselves.

[mimosa]

Sorry, I just didn't want to post anything too long - although the board does have a nice feature of putting anything long inside a box with a scrollbar.

I'll post more next time I fire it up. What really puzzles me is I didn't do anything last time I used it, just deleted some Windows stuff. Normally when I break things I know I probably had something to do with it

[gapan]

Post the kernel* and xf86-input-* packages that are installed. Also, the contents of your lilo.conf and the contents of your /boot. Do you have a xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d files? Post them too.

[Shador]

Sorry, I just didn't want to post anything too long - although the board does have a nice feature of putting anything long inside a box with a scrollbar.

If it's really, really long you can still fall back to some pastebin site. So not everybody reading the thread has to load your 2MB log file.

Generally, you can only provide too few information. When usually hunting a problem down I end up looking in dozens of places and asking every single bit in on its own slows it down significantly and makes it a lot harder.
The more your post the more important the structure becomes of course. So one could skip the possibly or seemingly irrelevant parts and could come back later. So only without good structure there can be too much information. But I remember you coming from a linguistic background, where you rather use to keep quotes short.

[mimosa]

It's also often tempting to pick the relevant bits out to save the time of whoever's helping - otherwise it can feel like you're saying, "Here's a lot of output, I can't be bothered to think about it." However, it's important to recognise the limitations of one's own knowledge, for exactly the reasons you say. Once or twice in some recent discussions here, I felt I would like to see more of the output. The great difficulty for us beginners is striking the right balance between that recognition of limits, on the one hand, and initiative on the other, which is after all what Linux is all about. I think until you have a fair bit of experience it's quite hard to get the balance right. But then any area of knowledge [Wissenschaft] is like that, I suppose.

So pastebin it is!

[mimosa]

http://pastebin.com/Qh0scCRF
http://pastebin.com/TtBEJMbP
For some reason I couldn't find lilo.conf, which is absurd. You will see how I searched for it - which turned up lilosetup.conf; I probably used lilosetup to update lilo last time round, though maybe that was from Live rather than inside the installation. However, there is only one kernel in /boot, and lilo works. I can boot into the installation at runlevel 3.

When I tried to use pine, though, there didn't seem to be any internet. That may have been a passing connectivity problem, or may indicate that more is broken than keyboard and mouse

Here are the contents of /boot again with -l:

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root[one]# ls -l /media/disk/boot
total 8520
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      37 Oct 18 15:54 README.initrd -> /usr/doc/mkinitrd-1.4.6/README.initrd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 Nov 18 18:07 System.map -> System.map-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2169190 Apr 10  2011 System.map-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Nov 18 18:33 boot.0800
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Nov 18 18:07 config -> config-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  117494 Apr 10  2011 config-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    5040 Feb 16  2010 diag1.img
-rw------- 1 root root  386048 Nov 20 13:27 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  308278 Mar 27  2011 salix.bmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 Nov 18 18:07 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5719840 Apr 10  2011 vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.37.6-smp

[gapan]

Weird. I can't see anything wrong. What is the output of lsmod? Are any modules loaded at all? Are the modules actually there in /lib/modules?

[mimosa]

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one[~]$ ls /media/disk/lib/modules
2.6.37.6-smp

This is the same output I get from Live, too, and everything's working.

Posting the output of lsmod may be tricky depending on whether (for example) I can even see the USB stick from inside the installation. But I'll have a go.

[gapan]

Boot into init 3.

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lsmod > LSMOD

boot from live, mount the drive and post the contents of the LSMOD file.

[mimosa]

Yes, that would work. However, I can reproduce the output of lsmod from memory. No modules were loaded at all.