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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