Bug#547143: xserver-xorg: xorg/evdev/HAL versus serial mouse
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:48:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> I don't see any mention of this issue in the docs, so I thought I'd
> better report it and the workaround I'm using. The xorg.conf below
> gets X to work as normal again with a minimum of complaining -
> though it also requires HAL to be disabled via an "exit 0" at the
> top of the init.d script. In principle there's probably some
> alternative involving writing appropriate custom .fdi files, but if
> I could work out how to do that sort of thing I'd be busy using my
> mutant psychic powers to fight superpowered criminals like the rest
> of you X-developers! HAL has no discernible reason for being
> present on this box, so I'm just nobbling it.
>
Actually I don't think there's a good way to handle serial mice right
now. hal doesn't seem to know about them. Maybe xorg.conf needs a
"don't ignore this device even if hotplug is enabled" sort of flag.
> Note that just disabling HAL and AutoAddDevices wasn't enough - I've
> had to put lots more lines back in my xorg.conf that I'd previously
> been leaving to the defaults. Many thanks for providing
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/examples/xorg.conf!
>
That's weird. I'd have expected that disabling AutoAddDevices would
make things work with the old xorg.conf InputDevice section (once that
is done, keeping hal running or stopping it shouldn't make a
difference).
> If it has been decided that xorg no longer supports serial mice,
> that's fine; just make sure the announcement gets into the Squeeze
> release notes. Otherwise, please document somewhere the approved
> method for keeping them working - the obvious place would be a
> NEWS.Debian file for xserver-xorg-input-mouse.
Agreed that this needs to be documented. I'd like to figure out the
best way to make this work first, though.
Cheers,
Julien
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