They say nothing happens by just bitching about it, but that's what I did to get the answer.

Try this one: https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/ … 8_0033.iso

I added acpi-fakekey. Did it first over ssh in a live session, and the trackpad worked instantly. Then I made the above iso and burned it to dvd. Only tested on laptop so far, but it works.

Did you see this one?  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1120843 … ket-ctb-2d

Check permissions on /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*

Yeah, our primary goal is to provide systemd-free debian. For those who want minimalist or libre or some other combination of packages, configs or whatever, there are derivative distros that fulfill some of these needs, and there are several ways of making your own, and there's a community of people already making their own who will offer ideas and advice and will help you solve problems you run into.

That brings us to a secondary goal - to accomplish the first goal with the least amount of work. We have a team of around a dozen people to keep up with the hundreds of debian developers. All are volunteers. We like to keep it simple and easy wherever possible.

Live iso burned to optical disk. (I've only tried DVD, because the isos are too big for CD.)
Auto-login is enabled in the official beowulf desktop-live isos.
It boots.
It goes to desktop.
You can't use keyboard or mouse.

I didn't notice this problem becuase I don't use optical disks anymore.

There's a much better description of the problem in the linked discussion. I was nice enough to link you to the last two of the 23 pages. Please take a look at that discussion for clues. I'd like to fix this problem, not just rename the isos to .img and tell everyone they are usb images. I'm hoping someone who knows something that I don't know will look at that and see where the actual problem is.

Thanks,
fsmithred (not a happy camper.)

I made another beowulf image with the same changes as the last refracta iso, minus the ssh-server and console-only runlevel 3. As you noted, these changes don't work if there's only usb mouse and keyboard. If there's a trackpad, they work. Someone else is supposed to let me know about ps2 inputs.

https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … p-live.iso
sha256sum:

b1bf2be25fcdd7711d730485b727ea864044f1e3c457e92e7aa52afc1a8f108a  devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_beta5_amd64_desktop-live.iso

Weird. I'm testing on a laptop that has a trackpad but no keyboard, and there's a usb keyboard plugged in. Both work.

On the builds that have no keyboard/mouse, I can remove/insert psmouse with or without the desktop running, and inputs all work when the desktop is restarted. That doesn't work for you?

I made another Refracta iso, and this one seems to work.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … 5_1335.iso

sha256sum:

f0989b9b31899ced549741c4373c43d73252f47c2500f0ed6168235bc041fc44  refracta10-beta3_xfce_amd64-20200515_1335.iso

Changes:
- edited lvm.conf in initrd and live system
- disabled lxdm in runlevel 3. Boot to console by adding '3' to the boot command.
- added the following code to /etc/rc.local to remove/insert psmouse kernel module. This did not work when added to live-config scripts. Maybe it was too early.

modprobe -rv psmouse
modprobe -v psmouse

With a Refracta DVD, I can ssh in when it gets to the desktop. I tried several things to get mouse and keyboard to work.

All of the following failed:
- restart lxdm
- restart eudev
- restart dbus
- disable autologin in lxdm and restart it
- init 1, ctrl-d

What does work:
- modprobe -r psmouse && modprobe psmouse   (I don't even need to kill the desktop and restart it for this to work)

Yeah, beowulf is ready - it's just the installation media we're struggling with. I've been using beowful since the beginning of this year.

The Refracta isos use lxdm, and the input problem exists there, too.

Editing /etc/lvm/lvm.conf in the initramfs gets rid of the repeated udev warnings on boot.
Editing /etc/lvm/lvm.conf in the live system gets rid of the repeated udev warnings on shutdown.

Replacing xserver-xorg-input-libinput with xserver-xorg-input-evdev didn't help the mouse/keyboard problem.

I've considered removing lvm2 and mdadm, but they're nice to have if you're using the live-iso as a rescue system or if you want to go to the trouble of manually setting up lvm or raid to install from the live. (It's possible, just not obvious.) And they were added in ascii by request from the community. Disabling lvm in runlevel 2 didn't fix the problem. But editing lvm.conf in both places did get rid of the messages.

Thanks for the detailed testing and report. Not exactly sure what I'll try next. Something tomorrow.

I'm not sure what to do about this, but I'm quoting it to remind me about it.

Meanwhile, the changes to the initramfs that I made did not actually get applied, and I'm not sure why. I may have to do that part manually.

Anyway...   beta-#*@%ing-4 coming soon.

Check /var/log/apt/history.log to see if you recently replaced consolekit with elogind. That would explain how it worked before without being a member of the netdev group.

Please give more details about what you did so that someone can reproduce it.