Bug#623604: xserver-xorg: AllowEmptyInput kills keyboard & mouse

[Rafael Garrido <rgarrido.f@gmail.com>]

> Rafael Garrido <rgarrido.f@gmail.com> (22/04/2011):
>> I have a similar problem with a fresh i386 install of wheezy in console.
>
> please follow up with answers to those questions:
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623604#10
>
> KiBi.

Sorry,

>
>Conrad Hughes <debbugs@xrad.org> (21/04/2011):
>> A fresh amd64 install of wheezy with "Graphical desktop environment"
>> selected in tasksel failed to start a usable graphical environment:
>> the image was corrupt, and keyboard and mouse input were ignored.
>
>corrupt how? If the server was crashed, it's no surprise
>keyboard/mouse were ignored.
>
>> Replacing nouveau with nvidia got me a working display, but still no
>> keyboard or mouse.  Seem to have solved the latter problem by taking the
>> following steps:
>>
>>   1) apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
>>
>>   2) Add an Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" stanza to my xorg.conf,
>>      which now looks like this (nothing other than these two sections;
>>      vaguely wonder whether I should have more, but this appears to
>>      work):
>>
>>     # Forgets k/b & mouse without this.
>>     Section "ServerFlags"
>>         Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
>>     EndSection
>>
>>     # Needed to invoke nvidia driver.
>>     Section "Device"
>>         Identifier     "Device0"
>>         Driver         "nvidia"
>>         VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>>     EndSection

>evdev should be sufficient in all cases. It doesn't appear in your
>log, is that package not installed? (xserver-xorg-input-evdev)

dpkg -l |grep -i xserver-xorg-input
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                        1:7.6+6
             the X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev                      1:2.6.0-2
             X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd                        1:1.6.0-1
             X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse                      1:1.7.0-2
             X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics                  1.4.0-1
             Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom                      0.10.10+20110203-1
             X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver


How i said before, with

Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "AllowEmptyInput""false "
EndSection

The keyboard is detected correctly.

My touchpad works by loading the psmouse module(modprobe psmouse), I
don't know why not loaded at startup.
I added to "/etc/modules"


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