On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/17/10, James Rayner <james@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <lists@itech7.com> wrote:
I don't have seven mouse buttons. The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using drivers mouse and kbd. If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset my box.
That's because you haven't configured Xorg. Without HAL, you need to create entries in your Xorg.conf regarding mouse/keyboard. This is documented all over the internet, and a new config using Xorg -configure will probably also contain the appropriate lines.
Besides having entries for mouse and keyboard, now it's required to include a server flags section:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False" EndSection
1st flag is to prevent Xorg to automatically load devices through HAL, and 2nd is to prevent Xorg to start with no devices (so it makes sure you have the entries configuring them).
This was documented somewhere I don't remember where though...
-- Javier.
Let it be. I'm happy with what I have now. WIll migrate to udev once KDE and Xorg officially stop using HAL. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com