On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:18:59PM -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:32 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > > Daniel Stone wrote: > > > AllowEmptyInput does not mean that your keyboard and mouse configuration > > > is being ignored; conversely, it means that it's not a fatal error to > > > have no keyboard and mouse configuration whatsoever. So if AEI changes > > > anything, you don't have a keyboard and mouse configured. > > > > Here is what it reported in the log: > > Hi Phil, > > I don't know if it's exactly the same as your situation, but I recently > had a situation with X on Debian acting up and resulting in mismapped > keys. > > The log file in that case showed that the "mouse" driver was getting > loaded. But clearly something was misinterpreting events. Perhaps > something was expecting events as they would come from evdev instead? I > don't know. > > The fix for my situation was to ensure that the "evdev" module was > loaded instead of the "mouse" module. > > I could have made that happen by editing xorg.conf, but I'm told that > that's passé now. Instead I copied the attached x11-input.fdi file, > (which I got from a friend), to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. After doing this, > hal loaded the "evdev" module for me and everything became happy. This > didn't quite feel to me like the happy no-configuration-required-for-X > paradise I had been promised, but there you have it. :-) > > I've been led to understand that this is due to a bug in the Debian > packaging of hal. But I don't really know if the blame lies with > upstream HAL, with Debian packaging, or even something else in the X > server that made things not work. > > All I know is that this is what fixed things for me. So I thought I > would pass it on in case it helps you as well.
unless I overlooked something, this fdi file is the standard one that should be installed as part of either the hal package or the X server package (fedora installs it as part of hal). So in your case it does indeed look like a distribution packaging error. the "happy no-configuration-required-for-X paradise" is mostly a "someone else does the default configuration so you don't have to" :) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
