Author: dj
Date: 2008-11-26 15:37:21 -0700 (Wed, 26 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 7619
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml
Log:
Added instructions to exclude evdev on x testing.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2008-11-26 21:57:09 UTC
(rev 7618)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2008-11-26 22:37:21 UTC
(rev 7619)
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
<para>November 26th, 2008</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[dj] - Added instructions to exclude the use of evdev driver
+ when testing the xorg server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[dj] - Moved /etc/X11 symlinks to x-setup page.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml 2008-11-26 21:57:09 UTC (rev 7618)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml 2008-11-26 22:37:21 UTC (rev 7619)
@@ -117,12 +117,24 @@
</indexterm>
XFREE86 -->
- <para>The screen will go black and you may hear some clicking of the
- monitor. This command will create a file in your
- home directory, <filename>xorg.conf.new</filename> for
- <application>Xorg</application>, or <filename>XF86Config.new</filename>
- for <application>XFree86</application>.</para>
+ <para>The screen will go blank and you may hear some clicking of the
+ monitor. This command will create a file,
+ <filename>xorg.conf.new</filename>, in your home directory.</para>
+ <para>Recent versions of <application>xorg-server</application> force the
+ use of the evdev input driver, and ignore legacy input devices definded in
+ <filename>xorg.conf</filename>. This will result in an X display that
+ seems to lock up if you are using legacy input devices and do not have the
+ proper input configuration files in place (added later). Add the following
+ lines to the new <application>Xorg</application> configuration file to
+ overcome this issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat >> ~/xorg.conf.new << "EOF"
+Section "ServerFlags"
+ Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
+EndSection
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Edit the newly created configuration file to suit your system. The
details of the files are located in the <filename>xorg.conf.5x</filename>
man page. Some things you may want to do are:</para>
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