Problems with evdev driver for keyboard

[Dmitry Dzhus]

Peter Hutterer <mailinglists at who-t.net> writes:

>> Output of `X -version` follows:
>> 
>>     X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
>> 
>> I'm using xf86-input-evdev of version 1.1.5.
>
> AFAIK these two are incompatible.
> server 1.4 requires evdev 1.2 or greater
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter

I've updated my evdev to 1.2 version. The configuration broke as evdev'd
advanced device matching (using vendor or product name fields) support
was deleted [1] (I don't know why, that was such a cool feature) so I
had to switch to dirty config using plain `"Device"` option:

    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "MSnek"
        Driver      "evdev"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "evdev"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
        Option      "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps,compose:ralt"
        Option      "Pass" "3"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "MSnek1"
        Driver      "evdev"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "evdev"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
        Option      "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps,compose:ralt"
        Option      "Pass" "3"
    EndSection

It's all the same though, see last lines of X.org log:

    (II) evaluating device (Mouse1)
    (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
    (II) evaluating device (MSnek1)
    (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MSnek1" (type: KEYBOARD)
    (II) evaluating device (MSnek)
    (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MSnek" (type: KEYBOARD)
    (**) MSnek1: 1 valuators.
    (**) MSnek1: Configuring in Absolute mode.
    (**) MSnek1: Registering 18 buttons.
    evdev: leds are 0x0 for device 3
    (II) MSnek1: Init
    evdev: leds are 0x0 for device 4
    (II) MSnek: Init
    (--) Mouse1: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
    (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
    (II) MSnek1: On
    (II) MSnek: On
    (II) MSnek1: Off
    (II) MSnek: Off
    (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
    (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
    (II) MSnek1: On
    (II) MSnek: On
    (II) MSnek1: Off
    (II) MSnek: Off
    (II) MSnek: Off
    (II) MSnek1: Off


Evdev devices still get switched off. Now I also cannot even enter
my username in display manager.
    
[1]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev/commit/?id=a0ea7363f51ff6c2bb81006b7220b7daa9ee9221
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Dmitry Dzhus
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