strange possibly Speakup-related Xorg problem

[Igor Gueths]

Apologies for the spam, for the record I figured out what happened. Apparently,
when Xorg-1.16 was released it came with a new "rootless" feature, which with
the help of System-logind X is started on the terminal at which a login took
place. This also means that running $ screen and then startx breaks this process
big time, as I discovered a bit ago. Forum thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184924

Hope this helps someone else who may or may not run into this in future.
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:58:54PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Forgot to include display driver info:
> ii  nvidia-kernel-4.2.0-1-amd64            340.93+1+b1+5+4.2.3-2
>   amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64
> ii  nvidia-kernel-amd64                    340.93+4.2.0+1+b1
>   amd64        NVIDIA kernel module for Linux (amd64 flavor)
> ii  nvidia-kernel-common                   20151021+1
>   amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms                     340.93-6
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:51:13PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > recently I got around to attempting to start X again after not having run it for
> > a while, and am finding that every time I do so a couple of things happn. First
> > I get an XF86OpenError permission denied when opening <insert console here>.
> > After chmod 777 to work around that problem, I can startx everything
> > successfully, even hear Orca speaking; however, by this point I completely lose
> > control of the physical keyboard, after which point aside from a reboot my only
> > recourse is to SSH in and killall X. 
> > 
> > Any ideas as to what could have borked here? Nothing appears amiss in
> > Xorg.0.log. Perhaps Speakup is not relinquishing control of the keyboard in
> > conjunction with the TTY layer as it has in prior versions?
> > dpkg -l: ii  xserver-xorg                           1:7.7+12
> >   amd64
> > ii  linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64              4.2.5-1
> >   amd64
> > Thanks!
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