No Keyboard Input - Debian

After installing Debian, I've had a ton of trouble with X. First there was no display,  then the mouse wouldn't work, now the keyboard has no input. I have tried a ton of things, reconfiguring x, dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (which doesn't list my keyboard, so I guess that doesn't work), and even deleting X and trying to start without it in hopes of a better configured xorg.conf. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

System: 

Sager NP8651 

GPU: Nvidia GTX 970m

Xorg (off of memory):

InputKeyboard: "Keyboard0" "Corekeyboard"

 

driver: kbd

input: Keyboard0

 

 

Put the repos into testing and go update the packages. It will pull the the new kernel and it will have the drivers you need. 

Debian stable isn't good for brand new hardware. It is almost 2 years old. The testing branch is much more up to date.

Testing is very stable so don't worry about that. Ubuntu and many other Distros are based on it.

Is your computer over 10 years old? Your using the wrong driver. You should have evdev installed (xserver-xorg-input-evdev), and it should be automatically detecting your mouse and keyboard without any configuration needed.

Whats your current xorg.conf?

Computer is nearly brand-new. Evdev is already present. Working on dual boot, writing on mobile so I'll have to shorten it. 

Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "X.org Configured"

Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection 

(Files and module sections)

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "kbd"

End Section

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"

VendorName "Monitor Vendor"

ModelName "Monitor Model" 

EndSection 

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor1"

VendorName "Monitor Vendor"

ModelName "Monitor Model"

EndSection 

 

(Two Device sections, card0 [fbdev driver] and card1[vesa driver])

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Card0"

Monitor "Monitor0"

Subsection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 1 

End Subsection

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 4

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 8

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 15

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 16

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 24

EndSubSection

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen1"

Device "Card1"

Monitor "Monitor1"

Subsection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 1 

End Subsection

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 4

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 8

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 15

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 16

EndSubSection 

SubSection "Display"

  Viewport 0 0

  Depth 24

EndSubSection

EndSection

 

That's my xorg.conf.

Reinstalling the latest testing version of Debian ( http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso ) in a few hours. Will update!

You shouldn't need an xorg.conf (yours looks un-needed). See how it goes, I havent used Debian in a while, but it absolutely should pick up your mouse and keyboard without you needing to use anything other than evdev. and by use, i mean it should be installed by default, you shouldn't need to do anything at all.

@Revolt

This is a known bios/kernel issue with newer Clevo parts and linux.

As Clevo make parts for Sager/Alienware/Dell/FN/Hypersonic etc, there have been recalls across the enterprise landscape in the last year or so in my neck of the woods.

There is a kernel patch being pushed upstream with 3.19 as a workaround, but I wouldn't expect bios updates to resolve the issue, unless you had a dell - then you might be lucky.

You're welcome.

 

 

 

Well after updating to a testing version, everything seemed to work well except the networking.. Wifi Card was not recognized at all. lspci picked it up but wlan0 and up weren't found.