On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16:29PM +0200, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I know, this issue is a "little" the field of BLFS. I am trying to get xorg
> working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the
> xorg.conf.new, I get a screen, with a dirty "X" on it, but no way to close it
> again. strg-alt-backspace is ignored, also the mouse. Cold reboot is needed.
>
> in Xorg.0.log I can read:
> "(WW) AllowEmtpyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be
> disabled.".
>
> OK, if disabled, I cannot work with them, that's clear. Question: what is the
> matter with this ? How and where can I avoid that this drivers become useless
> ?
>
> And ( granting a little, I am really tired ;-) ), what is the reason for
> this _new_ behaviour ?
> svn 20101023, xorg-server-1.8.2
>
> Hope you can again help, and thanks a lot,
>
> Edgar
>
> --
Well, I'm not pretending to be Bruce, but my xorg.conf has the
following lines (this is on an ibook, still using the kbd and mouse
drivers - my desktops use evdev and I think I need to do other
things on those to e.g. get all cursor keys repeating) :
# for xorg-server-1.5.3, otherwise no keyboard or mouse
# turn off dontzap for > 1.5.3
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
So, the AllowEmptyInput fix isn't exactly new. ISTR the DontZap
(for CtrlAlt Bksp) came during the xorg-server-1.7 series.
In general, the changes are made to suit the distros. Using a tty
login with .xinitrc, and not using hal or its replacement, are
decidedly uncommon choices now - just the same as building
everything from source on the machine where it is to run ;-)
Just out of interest, why are you using 1.8 instead of 1.7 or 1.9 ?
ĸen
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