Xorg -configure and AllowEmptyInput

Frédéric L. W. Meunier fredlwm at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 15:01:42 PDT 2010


(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse0
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0

I was wondering if Xorg -configure should issue a warning about that 
after it writes the configuration file.

Yesterday, I ran it on my new video card and had to force a reboot. I 
suppose it happened because I don't have the evdev driver installed or 
HAL enabled in xorg-server 1.9.0.

In my old xorg.conf, I had the following in "ServerFlags":
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"

Anyway, just a suggestion. I don't know if it's something on my end, but 
maybe Xorg -configure could be improved somewhat, based on HAL and/or 
evdev presence.



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