Am Dienstag, den 28.04.2009, 22:01 +0100 schrieb 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, 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 and > mouse configuration was being ignored. Having looked this up in man > xorg.conf I see that this mode is the default. I'll try to be polite: > This does not seem like the most useful behaviour. > > Having set AutoAddDevices to false in order to disable the unhelpful > AllowEmptyInput, I now have a functioning mouse. But I have a keyboard > where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the > others produce garbage (maybe top-bit-set characters?). > > I also noticed some messages in the log where "config/hal" complained > that "NewInputDeviceRequest failed". Presumably this is because of my > AutoAddDevices. I had noticed that Debian installed "hal"; I had not > previously heard of it. It looks like something that sits on top of udev. > > So I've now spent most of three days on this. I just want a computer > that works, preferably as well as the old one did, and while I don't > have one I can't do much work [I'm self-employed]. So could someone > please suggest what I should do: > > - Is there some simple set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just > work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and > with a functional keyboard? > > - Or would I be better off trying to learn how this HAL thing works? > > X is something that I only have to understand once every few years when > I have some new hardware. By the next time I need to understand it, > either I have forgotten something vital or it has all changed....
What Debian release do you use and what X.org version? If you run unstable with xserver-xorg 1:7.4+1 you should be able to just delete your xorg.conf file and everything should work out of the box. Thanks, Paul
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