Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL (SOLVED!!!)

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Finally solved, after something like 60 hours of hacking. My libX11.so was old. This caused xkbcomp to fail to parse the keymap files - it didn't recognise ISO_Level5 stuff. It looks like xkbcomp generated a keymap with some sort of Any+Any definition that caused every key to toggle the

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL (SOLVED!!!)

2009-05-08 Thread David Nusinow
Phil Endecott wrote: Finally solved, after something like 60 hours of hacking. My libX11.so was old. This caused xkbcomp to fail to parse the keymap files - it didn't recognise ISO_Level5 stuff. It looks like xkbcomp generated a keymap with some sort of Any+Any definition that caused

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL (SOLVED!!!)

2009-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Phil Endecott spam_from_x...@chezphil.org wrote: Finally solved, after something like 60 hours of hacking. My libX11.so was old.  This caused xkbcomp to fail to parse the keymap files - it didn't recognise ISO_Level5 stuff.  It looks like xkbcomp generated a

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-07 Thread Phil Endecott
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:32:53PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: (gdb) print xkbi-desc-server-acts[56] $28 = {any = {type = 3 '\003', data = \000\001\000\000\001\000}, mods = {type = 3 '\003', flags = 0 '\0', mask = 1 '\001', real_mods = 0 '\0', vmods = 256}, group

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: (gdb) print dev-key-xkbInfo.state $4 = {group = 0 '\0', base_group = 0, latched_group = 0, locked_group = 0 '\0', mods = 0 '\0', base_mods = 0 '\0', latched_mods = 0 '\0', locked_mods = 0 '\0', compat_state = 0 '\0',

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 18:58 +0100 schrieb Phil Endecott: Still battling with this. Help! Some new details below. I do not have a clue. So I just shoot into the dark. Did you already try using a LiveCD or a fresh installation? Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe top-bit-set

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:32:53PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: (gdb) where #0 XkbHandleActions (dev=0x82bf838, kbd=0x82bf838, event=0x83097a8) at xkbActions.c:1183 #1 0x08118fc1 in XkbProcessKeyboardEvent (event=0x83097a8, keybd=0x82bf838) at xkbPrKeyEv.c:159 #2 0x08106289 in

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 18:58:21 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Still battling with this. Help! Some new details below. Do you run xmodmap to somehow change the keymap? Cheers, Julien ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-05-05 Thread Phil Endecott
Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 18:58:21 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Still battling with this. Help! Some new details below. Do you run xmodmap to somehow change the keymap? Yes I have a ~/.xmodmap that will have been run in the startx case. However that would not have

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Endecott
set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and with a functional keyboard? The Debian guys can explain that much better than me. - Or would I be better off trying to learn how this HAL thing works? X is something

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:32 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: AllowEmptyInput does not mean that your keyboard and mouse configuration is being ignored; conversely, it means that it's not a fatal error to have no keyboard and mouse configuration whatsoever. So if AEI changes

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: I have a keyboard where every alternate keystroke produces the right letter and the others produce garbage (maybe top-bit-set characters?). Cool. Could you please send xev

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:18 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:32 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: AllowEmptyInput does not mean that your keyboard and mouse configuration is being ignored; conversely, it means that it's not a fatal error to have no

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:59:50 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: unless I overlooked something, this fdi file is the standard one that should be installed as part of either the hal package or the X server package (fedora installs it as part of hal). So in your case it does indeed look like a

AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-28 Thread Phil Endecott
set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and with a functional keyboard? - Or would I be better off trying to learn how this HAL thing works? X is something that I only have to understand once every few years when I have

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Menzel
self-employed]. So could someone please suggest what I should do: - Is there some simple set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and with a functional keyboard? - Or would I be better off trying to learn how

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Stone
: - Is there some simple set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and with a functional keyboard? The Debian guys can explain that much better than me. - Or would I be better off trying to learn how this HAL thing works? X

Re: AllowEmptyInput and HAL

2009-04-28 Thread Russell Whitaker
suggest what I should do: - Is there some simple set of xorg.conf settings that will make it just work like it did before, without any AllowEmptyInput and HAL stuff and with a functional keyboard? - Or would I be better off trying to learn how this HAL thing works? X is something that I only