[orca-list] [slightly OT]: Please help, X starts and no keyboard

[Julien Claassen <julien mail upb de>]

Hello everyone!
  Yeah, so I've installed my new arch linux, which amlost works. But when I 
try to install orca (even with orca -t), I find, that it can't access an X 
display. So I start X (either by startx or trying to launch gdm) and I have no 
more keyboard and thus no more access to the system at all.
  I think, I had that problem before, but it's so long ago, that I can't 
remember, how to fix it. The net isn't a great help either.
  Just to be sure: I'm running X with fbdev as graphical backend, since 
neither nouveau nor envidia would do the trick. One segfaulted, the other 
complained loudly and just wouldn't start.
  On an aside: anyone an idea, how I can set my console (terminal as in ttyX) 
size? I've tried both adding vga=769 and video=640x480 to the kernel 
commandline. It seems, that video drivers like nouveau/nvidia but also fbdev 
ignore these settings. - Here help on teh net is mostly concerned with getting 
bigger terminals, so no complaints about such a situation. :-(
  I'm sorry for practically spamming the list, but I don't know, what to do or 
where to look further.
  Warmly yours
        Julien

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