evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:32:48PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 15:15 Sat 19 Jan     , Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:06:24AM +0100, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> > > After adding the (in current stable) undocumented Option 
> > > "AllowEmptyInput" "true", X-Server will stop adding default mouse 
> > > and keyboard and you can live with a hal-only setup. To most users I 
> > > recommend adding the (in current stable) undocumented Option 
> > > "AutoAddDevices" to stop that conflict that both hal AND xorg-server 
> > > add input devices which is probably not what users wants. I'd like 
> > > to see AllowEmptyInput to be a default and to have an opt-out 
> > > instead of an opt-in that nobody knows about but is needed to make 
> > > things work right. The default behaviour is not good in my eyes.
> > 
> > I agree, the default should be AutoAddDevices, AutoEnableDevices, and 
> > AllowEmptyInput.  I'd recommend distributions make these the default.
> 
> If so, why aren't they all the upstream defaults?

Mainly just because we can't expect HAL to be installed and functional,
but I guess we could just document the change and tell people to suck it
up (though complain they will).

Cheers,
Daniel
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