evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 17:11 Sat 19 Jan     , Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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).

Would it be possible to set the defaults dependent on whether the 
server's built with HAL support? That way the assumption is just that if 
they build with HAL, they're using it.

Thanks,
Donnie