On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 16:33:46 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > After running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" I get an /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file that has no ServerLayout section. This means that the two > InputDevice sections (for keyboard and mouse) that are generated, but > not referenced by any other section, are ignored by the X server. > > This became more critical to me, (and confusing), when I compiled an > upstream X server which changes the default behavior when finding > no InputDevice sections, (previously, it would automatically add > "kbd" and "mouse" but now it no longer does that---assuming that > the X server will pick things up from HAL). Now, the fact that the > server didn't pick things up from HAL is a separate issue. > > The bug here is that the config file really *looks* like it is configuring > the keyboard and mouse, when it is in fact not. And yes, this is > quite mystic behavior on the part of the X server, but there it is. > AIUI, the problem is that the AllowEmptyInput option gets enabled by default in xserver >= 1.5, so the server doesn't look for mouse/kbd sections in xorg.conf. It should work fine when AllowEmptyInput is disabled, as in xserver 1.4. I think this is a bug in the server, and the mouse/kbd sections in xorg.conf should be considered even without a ServerLayout.
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