alan, went ahead and tried the build on a (nearly) clean install of opensolaris 2008.11 on my trusty thinkpad 42p (ati mobility firegl t2). initially ran into the same problem others here have encountered, namely no 'base' rules, so linked to xorg as suggested....
> > (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file > /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/base > > That file indeed does not exist, but I'm not sure > how it's being > > configured, or if I should just be linking one of > the rules files that > > do exist to that path. > > You can make base a link to the xorg rules file - > I'll need to fix the > default rules to use xorg until the g11n team makes > base available in > their packages. upon restart i noticed that instead of having enabled the keyboard (the mouse was previously working), now both input devices were off and again could not login via GDM. fired back into the console, and saw this little item in the Xorg.0.log: --> (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be disabled. --> (WW) Disabling Mouse1 --> (WW) Disabling Keyboard1 ok; that's easy to fix by setting AllowEmptyInput to false, which i did. and now i am unable to even start X. i'm attaching my xorg.conf and the Xorg.0.log if anyone wants to triage here, but the relevant portion is: --> (II) evaluating device (Mouse1) --> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) --> (II) evaluating device (Keyboard1) --> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD) --> (--) Keyboard1: Keyboard type: USB (6) --> (--) Keyboard1: Keyboard layout: 33 --> --> Backtrace: --> 0: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'xorg_backtrace+0x3c [0x80c267c] --> 1: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'xf86SigHandler+0x52 [0x80eeff2] --> 2: /lib/libc.so.1'__sighndlr+0xf [0xceafc60f] --> 3: /lib/libc.so.1'call_user_handler+0x2af [0xceaefbaf] --> 4: /lib/libc.so.1'strlen+0x30 [0xcea73d90] --> 5: /lib/libc.so.1'vsnprintf+0x65 [0xceac2bdd] --> 6: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'LogVWrite+0x12d [0x80c699d] --> 7: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'LogVMessageVerb+0xaf [0x80c6b5f] --> 8: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'LogMessage+0x34 [0x80c6c54] --> 9: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'connect_hook+0x193 [0x80d3363] --> 10: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'reconnect_timer+0x132 [0x80d1e32] --> 11: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'WaitForSomething+0x70a [0x80bec9a] --> 12: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'Dispatch+0xa3 [0x8096b53] --> 13: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'main+0x470 [0x80ac850] --> 14: /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg'_start+0x80 [0x8084ee0] --> --> Fatal server error: --> Caught signal 11. Server aborting --> --> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" --> (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" anyone care to give a gander here? perhaps i need something better than the default settings for the keyboard? ;) regards, eldee -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: xorg.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 3982 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/attachments/20090108/9b587038/attachment.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Xorg.0.log Type: application/octet-stream Size: 29609 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/attachments/20090108/9b587038/attachment-0001.obj>
