Re: setting up mouse and keyboard for X11

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:24:13PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> AFAIR, to configure X only with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file it is
> recommended to disable the "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices" (see
> man xorg.conf and /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/changelog.gz).

When I do that, neither keyboard nor mouse work and I´m forced to
press the reset button.

> Otherwise the configuration shall be migrated to
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (see
> /usr/share/doc/xser-xorg-core/changelog.Debian.gz).

Thanks! The manpage of evdev shows that there´s no option to set the
property "Evdev Wheel Emulation" which is disabled by default. How do
you configure this property?

The manpage also doesn´t say anything about keyboards.

And how does a configuration file under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
fit into the Debian policy that all configuration files reside under
/etc? Shouldn´t there be a file /etc/defaults/mouse (and more files
for more input devices) to set up the mouse just like there´s
/etc/defaults/keyboard? Once all input devices are configured the same
way for X11 and the console, they should work on both ...