On 13 Sep 2009, Peter Hutterer spake thusly: > I still see configurations with AllowEmptyInput off because there was a > brief period when that fixed a certain broken setup. Now people use it > because they read it somewhere and thought it's a good idea.
Actually I use it because with it off my keyboard is ignored unless HAL is running, even as of X.org 1.6.x, and HAL is an unreliable POS which failed to start for *years* for me, so I am reluctant to rely on it for anything. It's not all cargo-culting, unless you consider 'keyboard doesn't work, turn this option on and now it does' to be cargo-culting. (Note that this may have changed since 1.6.2, when I tried it last, but I doubt it's changed much since then.) (As an side, this is all with kbd+mouse. I have never managed to coerce evdev into working at all, so I'm using kbd because, well, it doesn't seem to have any disadvantages. Maybe it can't deal with some key or other that my keyboard doesn't even have. Maybe it's not good at dealing with massive multilingualism, but I'm a monoglot. I don't know why you push evdev so hard: kbd just works on every platform I've ever tried it on, while evdev is an OS-specific thing requiring an off-by-default kernel option to be turned on and I stll haven't managed to get working even then. Maybe it needs some device permission to be tweaked from the default as well, I don't know, it doesn't log it, and I don't much care because, well, kbd works.) _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel