evdev+hal => Too many input devices.

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:03:17PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 07/05/2009 01:41 PM, Łukasz Maśko wrote:
> > I have a Kingston BT mouse, which works pretty well with my Linux laptop. At
> > least it has worked so far, becouse this is what I'm getting in log files
> > right now, when I turn it on:
> >
> > (II) config/hal: Adding input device Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse
> > (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: always reports core events
> > (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event10"
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found keys
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Configuring as mouse
> > (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Configuring as keyboard
> > (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> > (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4,
> > EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
> > (EE) Too many input devices. Ignoring Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse
> > (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> 
> Do you have the "mouse" driver in your xorg.conf?
>      Identifier  "Mouse1"
>      Driver      "mouse"  <===========  This is not needed if you use evdev.
>                                         (Same for the "keyboard" driver.)
> 
> Try commenting out the entire "Input" section if you have one.

FTR, unrelated to this issue. 'Too many input devices' is an error message
the server spits out when the internal limit of input devices (20 in 1.6, 40
in git master) is reached.

Cheers,
  Peter