evdev is horrible and I can't get rid of it
JoJo jojo
onetwojojo at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 13:22:59 PST 2008
Live Chicken Sacrifice !!
......that always works (TM)
-JoJo
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think all sane people could agree that evdev is terrible. It makes
> your mouse not work right and the manual page is gibberish. And yet,
> it's like the zombie xorg module that won't go away! Even when I have
> Disable "evdev" in my Section "Module", somehow evdev still manages to
> load itself and ruin my pointing device. Why is this? Who thinks
> evdev is so awesome that it should override the user preferences
> against using it?
>
> I finally purged the evdev files from my system and look at this crap
> still happening at the end of my logs:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
> (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
> (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
> (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
>
> What's going on here? I don't want evdev until it works, and I don't
> want xorg trying to load it when I specifically have it disabled in my
> xorg.conf. Is this a distribution problem or is this behavior built
> in?
>
> -jwb
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