latest git xserver without hal causes Hotplugging to be a bit tricky

Justin P. Mattock justinmattock at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 14:34:34 PST 2010


On 11/27/2010 11:49 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Justin Mattock<justinmattock at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> hello,
>> Not sure how to really handle this here(maybe I missed something), but
>> under xorg.conf
>> I see:
>>         /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
>>         /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
>> [   280.713] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>> [   280.713] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd',
>> 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
>> [   280.713] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
>> [   280.713] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
>> [   280.713] (II) Loader magic: 0x7c9900
>> [   280.713] (II) Module ABI versions:
>> [   280.713]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
>>
>> startx works but I've no mouse or keyboard..
>> (HAL is not installed)
>
> It's using udev for hotplugging now unless you explicitly told it not
> to during the build.
>
>> if I
>>
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>         Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
>> EndSection
>>
>> startx gets me a blank screen.
>>
>> is there a new option that I need to add to xorg.conf in order to startx
>> and have radeon work right as well as the mouse and keyboard?
>> or is this dependant on hal and/or device manager?
>> (machine is a macbook pro)
>
> Either remove Mouse0/Keyboard0 from your xorg.conf, add the above
> ServerFlags to disable hotplugging, or rebuild with
> --disable-config-udev to remove hotplugging entirely.
>
> --
> Dan
>


your a lifesaver my friend!! that worked(in the past I never touched the 
udev switch..now I need too(recompiled))

all is good.. and Thanks you guys for fixing the mouse module as well 
compiled and loads good also.

Justin P. Mattock



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