Re: X/hal issue with upgrade
On 2009-04-19 19:41 +0200, John wrote:
> I upgraded everything sid today on my Thinkpad A31, and afterwards, X
> failed with this message:
> (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse$
> (WW) Disabling ThinkPad Keyboard
> (WW) Disabling IBM TrackPoint
>
> I added
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and was rewarded with continued failure and a
> new message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> (WW) RADEON(0): Option "AllowEmptyInput" is not used
It is only used if you add another line with
Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
in Section "ServerLayout".
> Finally I just downgraded all the xserver-xorg stuff (needing to use
> the dreaded "dpkg --force-depends" command) and also hal
> (just to be on the safe side). Now everything works again.
>
> What would have been the Debian way?
The recommended way is to remove any InputDevice sections from xorg.conf
and let hal manage that stuff.
See http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide.
Sven
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