Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL (SOLVED!!!)

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Finally solved, after something like 60 hours of hacking. My libX11.so was old. This caused xkbcomp to fail to parse the keymap files - it didn't recognise ISO_Level5 stuff. It looks like xkbcomp generated a keymap with some sort of Any+Any definition that caused every key to toggle the

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:32:53PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: (gdb) print xkbi-desc-server-acts[56] $28 = {any = {type = 3 '\003', data = \000\001\000\000\001\000}, mods = {type = 3 '\003', flags = 0 '\0', mask = 1 '\001', real_mods = 0 '\0', vmods = 256}, group

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe top-bit-set characters

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-05 Thread Phil Endecott
Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 18:58:21 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Still battling with this. Help! Some new details below. Do you run xmodmap to somehow change the keymap? Yes I have a ~/.xmodmap that will have been run in the startx case. However that would not have

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Specifically, when X started I had no keyboard or mouse. After power-cycling [no other way to escape!] I found a message in the log saying that AllowEmptyInput was enabled and that my keyboard

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe top-bit-set characters?). Cool. Could you please send xev

Re: Griffin Powermate evdev setup

2009-04-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:09:17AM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Option DIALRelativeAxisButtons 4 5 This option isn't supported anymore. OK. I think something like this is needed, though. If you have an application that actually knows about the dial axis

Re: Griffin Powermate evdev setup

2009-04-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Phil Endecott spam_from_x...@chezphil.org wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:09:17AM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:      Option          DIALRelativeAxisButtons 4 5 This option isn't supported anymore. OK. Â

AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Hello again, My efforts to recover from a dead computer continue. I have resurrected the old disk in a new box, but the new box has a different graphics chip and installing the (Debian packaged) driver for that has brought in new bits of everything, and it has all gone bad. Specifically,

Re: Griffin Powermate evdev setup

2009-04-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Dan Nicholson wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Phil Endecott spam_from_x...@chezphil.org wrote: I have a Griffin Powermate; it's a USB knob that you can use for scrolling etc.  This morning the computer that it was attached to died.  I'm now having trouble getting to work