[issue907] xorg.conf: Switch to Option "AutoAddDevices" "on"

[Sedat Dilek]

New submission from Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com>:

[ Note: I marked this as urgent, because X with no keyboard and mouse is *NO FUN* ]

Hi,

I tried grml-daily full sid/i386 from 2010-09-05 and today (20-Sep-2010).

In both ISOs, my input devices are not autoconfigured.
The touchpad of my IBM T40p notebooks works OOTB, but not the external Logitech
mouse and my keyboard.
I can't type in X (terminal), I can't click anything.

While digging into the problem, I saw a misconfiguration:

[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]
-        Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" # do not depend on running dbus/hal
+        Option "AutoAddDevices" "on" # Use udev input-hotpug backend to
configure input devices

...makes keyboard and external mouse work, again.

I was one of the first switching in a weekend IRC-session with Brice Goglin from
XSF (debian-x team) to the HAL input-hotplug backend in January 2009.
And to do a bit self-marketing:
I upgraded some parts of the InputHotplugGuide wiki in [1].
The xorg-xserver in Debian/sid (also squeeze) is using now the udev
input-hotplug backend.
Thanks to Julien Cristau as Upstream Maintainer and member of debian-x team.

Any reasons why you do not want to use input-hotplugging?

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide

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messages: 3357
nosy: dileX
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: xorg.conf: Switch to Option "AutoAddDevices" "on"
topic: configs, grml-x

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