Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> writes: >> >>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf >>> But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer >>> versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. >> >> They are unable to get your keyboard to work and will also fail with >> your pointing device > > Where did you come to that conclusion? Note that xorg.conf(5) says
It's not a conclusion, it's experience. Neither the keyboard nor the pointing device work correctly without an xorg.conf. You can try it out by plugging in different keyboards (with different amounts of keys and different keyboard layouts for different languages) and different pointing devices. Even if you get so far, without an xorg.conf, as to be able to mess around with various tools to adjust the configuration, and even if you can get the configuration you need with them, it's way easier to use an xorg.conf. And it's generally better to have something configured correctly to begin with than it is to have something misconfigured and then trying to work around the problems. In this case, for example, KDE also messes around with your keyboard setup unless you turn that off. I don't know what gnome does, it's probably not any better. Then use fvwm-crystal or some other WM or "desktop environment" that does or doesn't mess around with your settings, and you end up spending not only hours but days trying to figure out how to get your keyboard and/or pointing device to work under various circumstances. For example, what's the alternative to: ,---- | Section "InputDevice" | Identifier "Keyboard0" | Driver "kbd" | Option "XKBOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" | Option "XkbModel" "pc102" | Option "XkbLayout" "de" | EndSection `---- ... and loading an appropriate Xmodmap? You can also try something much simpler: Turn on NumLock and switch from your X session to the console and back. Is your NumLock LED still on after that? If not, how do you fix that? HAL isn't running, and there is only one package installed that depends on it; otherwise I would purge it. BTW, how do you disable hotplugging, and how do you find out whether it's enabled or disabled? The manual page of xorg.conf doesn't say how to do that. It must be disabled, though, because otherwise my keyboard won't work. -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxges29f....@yun.yagibdah.de