Colin Guthrie wrote: > eatdirt wrote: > At the moment, Xorg will automatically disabled kbd/mouse devices unless > you set the AllowEmptyInput flag in the server. > > From the man page: > > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "boolean" > If enabled, don't add the standard keyboard and mouse > drivers, if there are no input devices in the config file. Enabled by > default if AutoAddDevices and AutoEnableDe‐ > vices is enabled, otherwise disabled. If AllowEmptyInput > is on, devices using the kbd or mouse driver are ignored.
Thanks Col, I didn't expect you to answer :) > While I cannot answer for certain, I believe the end goal is to have X > "just work" One of the best ways to get information about what devices > exist on the system is to use HAL. The alternative would be to implement > functionality very similar to HAL in xserver itself, but why reinvent > the wheel. That's my question. The best economical program I know that gives information to the hardware present is the user through xorg.conf. That would be nice to still allow this! Chris. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
