On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > 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.
Yes, it is the change in the default of the AllowEmptyInput option that triggers the change in behavior. But I *think* that with no ServerLayout section the server adds default input devices rather than hunting them out in the config file, (but I could be wrong about that part). Meanwhile, I agree that it's a bug that the server doesn't respect the InputDevice sections without a ServerLayout section, (it does respect a Screen section without a ServerLayout section). I even looked a bit at xf86Config.c to see how easy that might be to fix. But regardless, that's not fixed now, and the configuration file that "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" generates results in a non-functional setup with xserver >= 1.5. So that's something that should be fixed still. There are no downsides to actually generating the ServerLayout section that the server wants, right? -Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
