Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: karl@××××××××.se
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:49:00
Message-Id: 20210910074851.477DA8517F7B@turkos.aspodata.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 thelma@×××××××××××.com:
2 ...
3 > libinput: Logitech G703 (my mouse) Failed to create a device for /dev/input/event23
4 > and before that it says xf85OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/event23 Permission denied.
5 ...
6
7 You can,
8 1. run X as root
9 2. either do
10 mknod -m 600 /dev/input/event23 c 13 87
11 chown $USER /dev/input/event23
12 or
13 mknod -m 666 /dev/input/event23 c 13 87
14 3. fiddle with udev so it does what it should, don't know how
15
16 Regards,
17 /Karl Hammar