X server aborting at first keypress or mouse movement

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:55:21PM +0000, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le mercredi 16 septembre 2009 à 23:35 +0200, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> > <quote>
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >     Option   "AllowEmptyInput"     "false"
> >     Option   "AutoAddDevices"      "false"
> >     Option   "AutoEnableDevices"   "false"
> > EndSection
> > </quote>
> 
> AutoAddDevices is enough to disable HAL support at run-time.
> 
> > <quote>
> > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
> 
> It's a bug, one that has already been fixed [1] in both master and in
> newer versions from the 1.6 branch. 1.6.3.901 should work just fine.
> 
> Upgrading to 1.6.3.901 is strongly advised.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> Rémi
> 
> [1]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.6-branch&id=397f7c42cd775f1dbfced58bc1dfaead48e86440

doesn't this bug crash the server on startup? the one described in this
thread seems to get past the startup until the first keypress - which sounds
like a different issue (not that I'd know which).

Cheers,
  Peter