On 2009-04-19 19:41 +0200, John wrote: > I upgraded everything sid today on my Thinkpad A31, and afterwards, X > failed with this message: > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse$ > (WW) Disabling ThinkPad Keyboard > (WW) Disabling IBM TrackPoint > > I added > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and was rewarded with continued failure and a > new message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > (WW) RADEON(0): Option "AllowEmptyInput" is not used
It is only used if you add another line with Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in Section "ServerLayout". > Finally I just downgraded all the xserver-xorg stuff (needing to use > the dreaded "dpkg --force-depends" command) and also hal > (just to be on the safe side). Now everything works again. > > What would have been the Debian way? The recommended way is to remove any InputDevice sections from xorg.conf and let hal manage that stuff. See http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
