In <[🔎] 20090420203621.GA8346@columbus.rr.com>, John wrote: >On (19/04/09 20:13), Sven Joachim wrote: >| 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" >| It is only used if you add another line with >| >| Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" >| >| in Section "ServerLayout". >| >| > [snip] 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. >Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I tried both your suggestions, >and still no joy: the xorg.conf with no INPUT sections fails, and when >I use the options suggested, I get only > >(WW) RADEON(0): Option "AutoAddDevices" is not used >(WW) RADEON(0): Option "AllowEmptyInput" is not used The format of these warnings indicates that you have put the Options lines in the wrong place. AutoAddDevices should be in the "ServerLayout" section, not the "Device" section. I'm not sure where AllowEmptyInput is supposed to be, but it is not the "Device" section. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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