Aaron Zang wrote:
> I was advised to use the following in xorg.conf if I want to configure
> Xorg 1.3 to use a specific USB keyboard
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "Protocol" "VUID"
> Option "StreamModule" "usbkbm"
That should be "StreamsModule" (note the s at the end of "Streams").
Typo in your e-mail or your conf file?
> Option "Device" "/dev/usb/hid0"
> EndSection
>
> It worked on Xorg 1.3. But when I tried it on Xorg 1.5, the keyboard
> does not work and I found the following error in Xerrors:
>
> (EE) Keyboard0: Unable to determine keyboard type: Inappropriate ioctl
> for device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Keyboard0"
>
> Did I miss something or the method changed?
It shouldn't have changed - is "/dev/usb/hid0" actually your keyboard?
Paths can change on hotplug or if you change the order the devices are
plugged into.
> I thought from version 1.5, Xorg makes use of HAL to discover keyboards
> and will
> open them directly. But the code in xf86-input-keyboard:
Xorg 1.5 and later try to use HAL, but fall back to /dev/kbd because HAL
won't tell it about input devices on Solaris until the putback for
6778270 input device support for Xorg1.5, which went into ON for build 115
this week.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
