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Re: X/hal issue with upgrade



On 2009-04-20 22:36 +0200, 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"
> | > [snip] 
> | 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

Did you add them to the right section?  It looks like you put them into
the "Device" section instead of the "Serverlayout" section.

Sven


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