Bug#524185: ditto
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 20:47:35 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> In any case this is a really bizarre behavior. Surely the program should
> first successfully detect and enable at least one keyboard and/or mouse
> device via HAL, and *only if that went well* decide to ignore completely
> valid xorg.conf settings?
>
xorg.conf parsing happens before we connect to hal, so no. Also hal can
be started after the server, and devices can be plugged in later still,
so there's no way to know that.
> The log file seems to clearly state that there is nothing detected or
> enabled, near the top:
>
> (==) Automatically adding devices
> (==) Automatically enabling devices
>
It doesn't state that at all.
> Well, either that, or it's actually detected something and hasn't told
> us what...
>
It tells you when a device is added with
(II) config/hal: Adding input device <name of device>
But that happens long after xorg.conf parsing.
Cheers,
Julien
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