Hi,
I'm new to this mailing list and I don't know if this was already
discussed. I updated from 4.3.99.9 to 4.3.99.11 and got the following
problem:
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(EE) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(EE) Unable to determine the screen layout
(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
I don't know wich changes were made for this to happen. My guess goes to
the following:
397. When a core keyboard or core pointer cannot be found in the
configuration, create default ones. The pointer part of this
requires some changes to the mouse driver (coming later) before
the default core pointer configuration will be useful on most
platforms (David Dawes).
I checked out 'xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c' and
found two things:
if (!havePointer) {
...some code...
/*
* If no core pointer config section found, create a
* default one.
*/
...some more code...
}
The above code seems to me to be the changes mentioned in 397.
if (foundPointer) {
...some code...
} else {
/* This should never happen. */
xf86Msg(X_ERROR, "Cannot locate a core pointer device.\n");
return FALSE;
}
Note the "This should never happen". I have no clue how the internal
config-file parsing works, but could it be that the 397's change broke
something in the core pointer detection code?
Bj�rn Martins Paz
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