On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:48:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > I don't see any mention of this issue in the docs, so I thought I'd > better report it and the workaround I'm using. The xorg.conf below > gets X to work as normal again with a minimum of complaining - > though it also requires HAL to be disabled via an "exit 0" at the > top of the init.d script. In principle there's probably some > alternative involving writing appropriate custom .fdi files, but if > I could work out how to do that sort of thing I'd be busy using my > mutant psychic powers to fight superpowered criminals like the rest > of you X-developers! HAL has no discernible reason for being > present on this box, so I'm just nobbling it. > Actually I don't think there's a good way to handle serial mice right now. hal doesn't seem to know about them. Maybe xorg.conf needs a "don't ignore this device even if hotplug is enabled" sort of flag.
> Note that just disabling HAL and AutoAddDevices wasn't enough - I've > had to put lots more lines back in my xorg.conf that I'd previously > been leaving to the defaults. Many thanks for providing > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/examples/xorg.conf! > That's weird. I'd have expected that disabling AutoAddDevices would make things work with the old xorg.conf InputDevice section (once that is done, keeping hal running or stopping it shouldn't make a difference). > If it has been decided that xorg no longer supports serial mice, > that's fine; just make sure the announcement gets into the Squeeze > release notes. Otherwise, please document somewhere the approved > method for keeping them working - the obvious place would be a > NEWS.Debian file for xserver-xorg-input-mouse. Agreed that this needs to be documented. I'd like to figure out the best way to make this work first, though. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
