Thanks Dan, I configured the xserver with option '--enable-config-hal' and it worked. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Dan Nicholson <<a href="mailto:dbn.lists@gmail.com">dbn.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Amey <<a href="mailto:amey1288@gmail.com">amey1288@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Dan Nicholson <<a href="mailto:dbn.lists@gmail.com">dbn.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Peter Hutterer >> <<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>> wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:17:12AM +0530, Amey wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I am a final year graduate student and I am trying to >> >> configure X server.In that when I tried to run X server after all the >> >> configuration done with following commands: >> >> >> >> *1) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop >> >> 2) sudo startx -- /opt/mpx/bin/Xorg verbose :0 (P.S. I installed all >> >> the >> >> packages with prefix /opt/mpx ) >> >> * >> >> then X server didn't run initialy and I got the following log: >> >> >> >> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /opt/mpx/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so >> >> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 >> >> (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211 >> >> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) >> >> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap >> >> XKB: Failed to compile keymap >> >> Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect >> >> setup >> >> of xkeyboard-config. >> > >> > This is often the case if /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb/compiled/ doesn't exist >> > or >> > isn't writable. Check for that too. >> > >> >> For above error I configured xkeyboard-config package with prefix >> >> /opt/mpx/ >> >> and again tried to run X server with above sequence of commands.But >> >> still >> >> error was there. So checked for "xkbcomp" in /opt/mpx then found it >> >> here: >> >> >> >> /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb >> > >> > this is weird, xkbcomp should not be in this directory. Please >> > reconfigure >> > with the right prefix and reinstall instead of the symlink. >> > that aside - is there any reason you disable hotplugging? >> >> This comes from some dubious behavior in xkeyboard-config. It creates >> a symlink to xkbcomp in the xkb base directory unless you pass a >> --disable-xkbcomp-symlink or something like that. >> >> Amey, just build xkbcomp with --prefix=/opt/mpx and make sure it uses >> a base path of /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb so it will pick up your config >> files. There should be a configure option if it doesn't just follow >> --prefix by default. >> > > Thanks Dan, It worked by configuring xkbcomp package by > following the instructions you told. > But still I have one more problem which is of reattaching the master pointer > to plugged mouse i.e. slave device. > When I used 'list' option of xinput command it shows some 2 > virtual core pointers and one master ( that I created earlier by > 'create-master' option ) .For that I had configured lib-hal-dev package from > synaptics and also checked for dbus package so it ws already there so didn't > install again.But still when I plug in an usb mouse its not getting > recognised when I checked using 'list' option of xinput command. > > P.S. I have configured X server on ubuntu interpid-ibex. </div></div>Possibly the server was not built with hal support for hotplugging. If you attach a Xorg.0.log, it should shed some light. -- Dan </blockquote></div> -- Thanks, Amey.