A couple of problem with xorg-server 1.7.3

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:53:51AM +0800, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:46 +0100, Tormod Volden wrote: 
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Pat Kane <pekane52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Citēju Gregoire Gentil <gregoire at gentil.com>:
> > >
> > >> First, since the version later than 1.5.3, X takes a very long time to
> > >> start, especially I have a blank screen for almost seven seconds! :-( I
> > >> would like to know how I can debug what X is trying to do during this
> > >> very long time.
> > 
> > There is a timestamp patch here (courtesy Bryce Harrington):
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/patches/160_log_timestamping.patch;hb=refs/heads/ubuntu
> > 
> > Tormod
> Thanks to everyone who has replied and given some advice to my initial
> post.
> 
> This log patch would deserve to be part of the release, as it adds a lot
> of value to Xorg.0.log.
> 
> After some investigations, I have fixed a few stupid things, and the
> situation has improved. Nevertheless, I discovered that the whole hal
> discovery creates a lot of delay. Taking into account that i have fixes
> input devices (touchpad / keyboard on USB, touchscreen on I2C), how can
> I disable the hal discovery and hard-code the three input that I have?
> Would the following xorg.conf make sense? I'm still confused by
> "AutoAddDevices" and "AllowEmptyInput".

disable AutoAddDevices, there's not really a normal usecase for disabling
AllowEmptyInput alone. the config looks alright.

Cheers,
  Peter