Recent input changes

Jeff Chua jeff.chua.linux at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 18:21:22 PST 2009


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Peter Hutterer
>>> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>>>> please provide your log file.
>>
>> Ok, found the problem. It was naive assumption to assume keyboard is
>> at event0 and mouse at event1. Turned out be event 6 and 8 from
>> /proc/bus/input/devices.
>
> If you can use the persistent symlinks: /dev/input/by-id and
> /dev/input/by-path. The event nodes are essentially random and are
> only determined by the order the kernel initializes them.

Ok, will try that.

Now I've bisected down to this commit that's causing vmware to crash
upon pointer leaving the window.


f062e90a95f9b7ae5458ef2100615e8ace9b66a7 is first bad commit
commit f062e90a95f9b7ae5458ef2100615e8ace9b66a7
Author: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 19:15:30 2008 +0300

    Input: Remove modifierKeyMap

    Since modifierKeyMap is generated from modifierMap, just remove it, and
    only generate it when we need to send the modifier map to the client.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

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2915098bce639e58b10c864a9e8b2718ca45c9fd M      Xi
:040000 040000 f96cdcd2fc6a7f3b7fb7ecd06bd54d826f9ae951
2101a653015ba782fbedaa529bab0690953aad9b M      dix
:040000 040000 1323147dac52590fe241d46eb3ef0cf3edb97cd7
792af8c6331f77723a35ec341ce62666dabcd838 M      hw
:040000 040000 316f07c3545508dbfc507b4dbea8527b573ce996
1f6c496ffe24bb5740e4fd254fa62a521c6624ef M      include
:040000 040000 c48224593d0cac3a70fe6135c9857f6159831abf
fc3f58eb80b3314a3ff0155b39c535df93eea555 M      xkb



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