Bug#571604: keyboard broken in X server, mouseemu related?
I just un-installed the patched xserver-xorg-input-evdev, as it seemed
to affect the auto-wake in X after the computer put itself to sleep. I
don't know if this makes sense/is related or not.
Cheers,
David
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer@who-t.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:07:48PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 23:01:55 +1100, David Wlazlo wrote:
>> > "Mouseemu virtual keyboard": dropping event due to full queue!
>>
>> Your X log has a lot of such messages. Do things work better if you
>> disable/uninstall mouseemu?
>>
>> From a quick look at its sources, it looks like mouseemu never sends
>> EV_SYN events to the kernel for its keyboard device, and the evdev X
>> driver expects those before it sends any events to the X server. I'm
>> not sure which is buggy here.
>
> mouseemu.
>
> EV_SYN marks the end of an event, so if the device never send one that's
> buggy. especially with multitouch support in the kernel now, EV_SYN is even
> more important as each event may contain multiple sub-events.
>
>
>> mouseemu does ioctl(ui_mouse_fd, UI_SET_EVBIT, EV_SYN); but it does no
>> such thing for its kbd device, so maybe xf86-input-evdev should test
>> this bit instead of unconditionally waiting for EV_SYN. Peter?
>
> yeah, that'd make sense in principle (though not on this devices if I look
> at the followups ;) but then again - I don't know of any other devices where
> this is the case.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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