On 1/18/2009 3:24 PM, J?rgen Keil wrote:
> Has anyone got a working PS/2 keyboard / mouse with the
> new Xorg 1.5.3? Or is everyone using USB devices these
> days?
Given that most laptops still route their built in keyboards and
pointers via PS/2, there are a lot of PS/2 users still.
> I restarted hal after making sure that /etc/devices/snapshot_cache
> contains up-to-date device information, and hal has recognized the
> ps/2 keyboard& mouse. One thing that looks strange is that
> hal has set the input.x11_driver to "mouse" for the ps/2 keyboard?
> Or does is mis-detect the ps/2 keyboard as a ps/2 mouse?
That's a bug in the hal in the 12-23-08 packages the hal developers
fixed later. You can workaround it by using an xorg.conf that
specifies the kbd & mouse drivers, and sets the AllowEmptyInput
server option to false. (In the upstream code AllowEmptyInput
is the default and disables kbd & mouse entries in xorg.conf, since
they conflict with hal created evdev driver entries on Linux - I've
changed those in the nv_107 code so that we have a fallback on
systems with hal not working, and will be discussing with upstream
whether the defaults should be different for Linux vs. non-Linux.)
-alan-
