Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse

2011-01-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: I'm calling this wishlist because I've eventually managed to get X working again; it's essentially a documentation issue. The issue of serial mice not working via evdev is documented in the draft Squeeze releasenotes (along with a pointer to the package inputattach), so I'd

Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Baldo
I don't know if it is documented already, but it should be documented on relevant X manpages and in the X doc dir maybe even in a README.Debian file. Some users don't read the release notes. But thanks a lot for whats have been already done!!! P.s.: I had a serial mouse not too long

Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse

2009-09-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+4 Severity: wishlist I'm calling this wishlist because I've eventually managed to get X working again; it's essentially a documentation issue. As NEWS.Debian says, devices configured in xorg.conf to use the mouse or kbd driver are ignored by the X server by

Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse

2009-09-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:48:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: I don't see any mention of this issue in the docs, so I thought I'd better report it and the workaround I'm using. The xorg.conf below gets X to work as normal again with a minimum of complaining - though it also requires HAL to be

Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse

2009-09-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:48:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: [...] Note that just disabling HAL and AutoAddDevices wasn't enough - I've had to put lots more lines back in my xorg.conf that I'd previously been leaving to the defaults. Many thanks for providing