Re: very broken X after recent upgrades
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote:
>>
>>>> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need
>>>> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you
>>>> still
>>>> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log.
>>>>
>>>> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of it,
>>>> and
>>>> yes, the new way does work.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have all of those. Log is attached. I'm not sure how this Mac (my
>>> current access to the problem machine) will show it.
>>
>> Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from yours :/
>>
>> I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of
>> 'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver' option set
>> (maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices are
>> eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize your
>> stuff.
>
>
> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database! I clearly totally
> missed some basic changes in Xorg. I have been looking for documentation on
> this change and haven't found enough.
That seems really weird. I am pretty sure that if you have a fairly
current and correctly installed hal, you should have those entries,
whether or not X is making correct use of them.
You say you are running "squeeze/sid (mostly sid)." Is your
hal the sid version?
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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