Hi Carl, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:49:04 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> 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). > when AllowEmptyInput is off, the server calls checkCoreInputDevices(), which does: * Locate the core input devices. These can be specified/located in * the following ways, in order of priority: * * 1. The InputDevices named by the -pointer and -keyboard command line * options. * 2. The "CorePointer" and "CoreKeyboard" InputDevices referred to by * the active ServerLayout. * 3. The first InputDevices marked as "CorePointer" and "CoreKeyboard". * 4. The first InputDevices that use the 'mouse' and 'keyboard' or 'kbd' * drivers. * 5. Default devices with an empty (default) configuration. These defaults * will reference the 'mouse' and 'keyboard' drivers. The xorg.conf generated by the xserver-xorg package relies on 4 above, which breaks when AllowEmptyInput is turned on. I think the first four points should still be tried when no ServerLayout section is present, even with AllowEmptyInput. > 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. > Yeah, I looked too, and will try to fix that upstream, time permitting. > 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? > It makes xorg.conf longer :) Seriously though, it probably doesn't hurt, so I'll try to make that change soonish. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
